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The Quiet War on Obamacare

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Idaho Attempts to Lower Insurance Premiums by Proposing Policies That Scrap Key Provisions Required by the Affordable Care Act

The state of Idaho is attempting to lower insurance premiums by proposing policies that scrap key provisions required by the Affordable Care Act. If you want to charge higher premiums to people with preexisting conditions, anything from cancer to arthritis, you can start doing that. Obamacare requires insurance companies to charge everybody sick or healthy the same prices and it sets up this possibility that you could have a state where Obamacare exists but is not followed.

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