Quote of the Day

“While Republicans are rhetorically committed to ACA repeal, it is not clear to me that when they look at what it involves they will really want to do it. Nor is it clear that they can do it, as a lot of it is hugely popular and much of it is already in place. An additional and important reason why repeal of the ACA and of exchanges would be problematic for Romney is the ‘if you break it, you fix it’ principal. If the ACA is repealed, the number of uninsured will keep going up, health care costs will keep going up, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will run out of money eight years sooner…. That is not a set of problems of which a man as bright as Mitt Romney would like to take ownership.”

— Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., told AIS’s Inside Health Insurance Exchanges.