{"id":31868,"date":"2026-03-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=31868"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:00:00","slug":"120413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=31868","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Shows ACA&#8217;s Mandated Benefits Alone Don&#8217;t Drive Up Costs. Debate Continues."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clf1.medpagetoday.com\/media\/images\/120xxx\/120413.jpg\" \/> (MedPage Today) &#8212; In January, when President Donald Trump unveiled his 1-page outline to address healthcare spending, dubbed &#8220;The Great Healthcare Plan,&#8221; he specifically mentioned the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s (ACA) role in driving up costs.<br \/>\n&#8220;I call&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/washington-watch\/120413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.medpagetoday.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPage Today) &#8212; In January, when President Donald Trump unveiled his 1-page outline to address healthcare spending, dubbed &#8220;The Great Healthcare Plan,&#8221; he specifically mentioned the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s (ACA) role in driving up costs. &#8220;I call&#8230; Source: www.medpagetoday.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[22051,10532,14058,22053,15912,10381,10406,15600,22052,11284],"class_list":["post-31868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-acas","tag-benefits","tag-continues","tag-costs","tag-debate","tag-dont","tag-drive","tag-evidence","tag-mandated","tag-shows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}