The difference in mortality rates translates into one additional patient death for every 77 patients treated by physicians 60 and older, compared with those treated by doctors 40 and younger.
The AHCA would eliminate essential benefits in favor of letting each state decide, but why reinvent the wheel? Oregon has already developed a system that works.
Without using the so-called “invisible high-risk pool,” Anthem would have increased rates more than 20%, says the superintendent of Maine’s Bureau of Insurance. Instead, the rates went up less than two percent.
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