article_snippet: A collection of three congressmen, including Senate Finance committee chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), recently acknowledged the dire need for an alternative in the wake of Obamacare's demise and issued a "blueprint" that nods toward some of the key concepts.
article_snippet: If anything, the massive outreach campaigns required to push traffic to HealthCare.gov demonstrate the difficulty in getting young, healthy people to act in healthy people own best interests.
article_snippet: While this outline potentially salvaged some semblance of the broad health care access the ACA is achieving, Senator Hatch showed Senator Hatch hand with a subsequent Washington Post op-ed Senator Hatch shared with two other senators.
article_snippet: Instead, Senator Hatch and Senator Hatch colleagues hope to soften the blow by offering a transitional period so that marketplace health plans aren't immediately canceled after the Supreme Court issues the Supreme Court ruling, expected in June.
article_snippet: two other senators would generously allow states to develop two other senators own plans, something only the intellectual powerhouse of Massachusetts managed to accomplish prior to the ACA.
article_snippet: With most of the affected 37 states having one or more government branches controlled by a party that preferred the status quo prior to the ACA, such state-level innovation isn't likely.
article_snippet: It surprised everyone involved with debating and covering the ACA at the time of the ACA passage, including the lawyers behind this suit, to learn the bill erroneously specifies only state-run exchanges can dole out subsidies.
article_snippet: We suffered a rocky transition into the ACA, no question, but hospital systems, providers and patients are just now getting the lay of the land.