Debate Now Universal Exchange Plan

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In the document found at this link -- Universal Exchange Plan (UEP) -- one will find a health insurance proposal that seeks to substantially repair health-policy problems caused by the ACA and those that predate it.

Brief Overview:

• Compatible with the “repeal and replace” approach, but the UEP's reforms do not require comprehensive repeal of the ACA in order to be enacted.
• Introduces major changes to Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid.
• Uses a reformed version of the ACA’s health insurance exchanges as the basis for far-reaching entitlement reform.
• Repeals many of the ACA’s cost-increasing insurance mandates, including the individual mandate.
• Preserves the ACA’s guarantee that every American can purchase coverage regardless of preexisting conditions.
• Utilizes the concept of using federal premium support subsidies, on a means-tested basis, to defray the cost of private health coverage.

The Universal Exchange Plan’s Key Reforms

• Repeals ACA individual mandate, employer mandate, & all tax hikes except "Cadillac Tax"
• Emancipates exchanges from costly federal regulation
• Combats hospital monopolies
• Migrates most Medicaid enrollees and future retirees onto reformed exchanges

Projected Fiscal and Coverage Outcomes

• 30-year deficit reduction of $8 trillion
• 30-year revenue reduction of $2.5 trillion
• Makes Medicare Trust Fund permanently solvent
• Reduces private-sector premiums
• For Medicaid population, improves provider access by 98%; medical productivity by 159%
• By 2025, increases coverage by 12.1 million above ACA levels

Thread Rules:

1. Read thoroughly the entire document and then comment only on the design and features of the proposed Universal Exchange Plan itself. Here again is the link for it: Universal Exchange Plan. Do not remark upon anything else.
2. If you have not carefully read the whole document, don't post in the thread. Share your thoughts about it elsewhere; create your own thread to do so if need be. Individuals here who are willing to read the whole document and in turn have a substantive discussion about it, I welcome your feedback.
3. If you post remarks that show you haven't thoroughly read the proposal I will request your post be deleted for non-compliance with thread/SDF rules. It'll be obvious that you have not for you'll write something that won't make sense given the document's content. Be forewarned, the content in the executive summary does not include the nuance that is found in the corresponding sections of the document's main body. . (Yes, I have read the document from start to finish, including the endnotes and some of the referenced sources.)