This is the Cato Dilly Podcast for Thursday, June 22nd, 2017. I'm Caleb Brown.

Cato's Michael Cannon had just five questions for Republicans hoping to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Sadly, the answers provided by the new Senate GOP health care bill fall far short.

Cannon offers what would have been included in his reform plan.

You have several questions that you've put to the Senate on their long-awaited health

care bill and we could just go through those in turn?

Sure.

One, would it repeal the parts of Obamacare specifically community rating that precludes

secure access to health care for the sick by

causing coverage to become worse for the sick and the exchanges to collapse.

So the Senate bill does not repeal those provisions of Obamacare nor the other provisions that are driving up

premiums and so the danger is not just that the conditions in the exchanges will continue to deteriorate.

That the coverage will get worse, premiums will keep going up, and more and more insurers

will exit the exchanges leaving people with no coverage.

But that will be blamed not on the provisions of Obamacare that Republicans left in place.

It'll be blamed on Republicans supposed

free market reforms, which will make it even harder in the future to get rid of those very

damaging regulations.

All right, number two, would it make health care more affordable or just throw subsidies

at unaffordable care?

And unpack what you mean by that.

So the approach that Obamacare takes, that the Affordable Care Act takes to increasing access to health care is not to reduce

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