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","categories":[{"name":"Core and Group Health","uri":"/benefits-broker/core-group-health/","channelName":"Benefits Broker"},{"name":"Health Care Reform","uri":"/benefits-broker/health-care-reform/","channelName":"Benefits Broker"},{"name":"Employer-Paid","uri":"/benefits-manager/employer-paid/","channelName":"Benefits Manager"}],"bodyArray":["<p><figure id=\"attachment_85307\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"616\" xmlns:i=\"incisive-repository\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-85307\" src=\"https://images.benefitspro.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=contain/https://images.benefitspro.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/412/2019/07/KamalaHarris.jpg\" alt=\"Kamala Harris\" width=\"616\" height=\"372\"/> For Sen. Kamala Harris of California and former Vice President Joe Biden, health care became the sequel to their first fiery exchange. 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He reiterated his support for the Affordable Care Act, saying it is working and the best way forward is to “build on what's working.”</p>","<p>They bickered over how to retain choices for consumers, using terms like private and employer-based insurance, public option and Medicare Advantage.</p>","<p>New York Mayor Bill de Blasio puzzled over the “mythology that people are in love with their private insurance.” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee boasted that his state <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/14/washington-public-health-plans-1431816\"> just became the first</a> to provide its citizens with a public option. Biden <a href=\"https://khn.org/news/if-you-like-your-plan-you-can-keep-it-bidens-invokes-obamas-troubled-claim/\"> boldly repeated his version of a claim</a> very similar to the one that once earned President Barack Obama <a href=\"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/\"> PolitiFact's 2013 Lie of the Year</a>.</p>","<p>At times the back and forth was fast and furious, and it seemed even the candidates were lost in the numbers they were firing across the stage. Fortunately, we were taking notes.</p>","<p>HARRIS: “I'm going to go back to Vice President Biden because your plan does not cover everyone in America by your staff's and your own definition. Ten million people, as many as 10 million people, will not have access to health care.”</p>","<p>Her claim needs, at least, further scrutiny.</p>","<p>When Biden unveiled his health care plan a couple of weeks ago, his campaign <a href=\"https://joebiden.com/healthcare/\">noted</a> — under the bold heading “Give Every American Access to Affordable Health Insurance” — that it would insure “more than an estimated 97 percent of Americans.”</p>","<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, also running for the Democratic presidential nomination, first proposed the Medicare for All plan. His campaign <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CaraKorte/status/1150863197668294657\">initially seized on that figure Monday</a>, arguing that would leave about 10 million people uninsured.</p>","<p>A Harris campaign spokeswoman pointed to the fact that there are <a href=\"https://www.census.gov/popclock/\">an estimated 329.3 million people in the United States</a>, and 3 percent of that number would be about 9.88 million people.</p>","<p>Imprecise math aside, other factors could play into the number of uninsured individuals under a Biden health care system. That includes the fact that some Americans just don't want insurance — the problem the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate was intended to fix. But Republicans in Congress repealed the penalty for that mandate.</p>","<p>SEN. MICHAEL BENNET: “I believe we should finish the job we started with the Affordable Care Act with a public option that gives everybody in this audience the chance to pick for their family whether they want private insurance or public insurance and requires drug companies to be negotiated with by Medicare and it provides competition. That is totally different from the plan that Sen. Warren and Sen. Sanders and Sen. Harris have proposed, which would make illegal employer-based health insurance in this country.”</p>","<p>Both Bennet, of Colorado, and Biden claimed Harris' plan would lead to the elimination of employer-based insurance. That could be the case, particularly for plans that would not meet the expansive requirements for coverage of “medically necessary” services Harris outlined.</p>","<p>But there is more to learn about Harris' plan, released just two days ago — and at least a couple of problems with Bennet's claim.</p>","<p>To start, while Warren, Sanders and Harris all use the term “Medicare for All” to refer to their preferred health care plan, they do not share a single plan.</p>","<p>The Sanders plan (endorsed by Warren) would eliminate private insurance in favor of a government plan. Harris' plan, though, keeps a role for private insurers willing to offer Medicare coverage that meet certain benefit and cost requirements.</p>","<p>During her plan's decade-long phase-in, Harris <a href=\"https://medium.com/@KamalaHarris/my-plan-for-medicare-for-all-7730370dd421\"> wrote in a Medium post</a> — and Bennet's campaign cited as evidence — that it would “provide a commonsense path for employers, employees, the underinsured, and others on federally-designated programs, such as Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act exchanges, to transition.”</p>","<p>Would those employer plans transition out of existence? Harris' campaign did not immediately respond to inquiries about the future of employer-based insurance under her proposal.</p>","<p><i><a href=\"https://khn.org/\">Kaiser Health News</a> is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.</i></p>","<p><strong><em>Read more:</em> </strong></p><ul xmlns:i=\"incisive-repository\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https://www.benefitspro.com/sites/benefitspro/2019/07/30/aca-winning-out-over-medicare-for-all-among-democrat-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">ACA winning out over Medicare for All among Democrat voters</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href=\"https://www.benefitspro.com/sites/benefitspro/2019/07/25/bidens-obamacare-2-0-comes-with-controversy/\" target=\"_blank\">Biden's Obamacare 2.0 comes with controversy</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href=\"https://www.benefitspro.com/sites/benefitspro/2019/06/18/nonprofits-look-for-health-care-reform-but-maybe-not-medicare-for-all/\" target=\"_blank\">Nonprofits look for health care reform, but maybe not Medicare for All</a></strong></li></ul></div>"],"slides":[],"video":null},"articlePackages":[],"youmightlike":[{"uri":"/2024/11/06/what-the-election-results-mean-for-employer-health-plans/","title":"What the election results mean for employer health plans","byline":"Allison Bell","prettyDate":"November 06, 2024","readtime":"5","image":{"uri":"https://images.benefitspro.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/412/2024/08/2024-8-20-green-numbers-crystal-ball-104239992_Thinkstock_620x372.jpg","width":"620","height":"372"},"summary":"Some large health insurers have backed federal efforts to crack down on potential rivals to fully insured group health insurance, but the Trump administration seems likely to end efforts to restrict the major medical insurance alternatives."},{"uri":"/2024/11/06/why-we-need-to-make-navigating-health-care-as-simple-as-buying-a-new-tv/","title":"Why we need to make navigating health care as simple as buying a new TV","byline":"Jeff Jacques","prettyDate":"November 06, 2024","readtime":"6","image":{"uri":"https://images.benefitspro.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/412/2024/11/switching-channels-on-TV-set-with-remote-control-Article-202411061144.jpg","width":"620","height":"372"},"summary":"People need a more user-friendly way to navigate the complex health care system. 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