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Events • February 12, 2025 

# Think Bigger: Meaningful Health Reform — Panel 1: Who’s Afraid of Cutting Health Spending? 

A flood of government regulations, mandates, and subsidies has not solved the United States’ health care problems—they *are* the problem. They have driven the average employer-plan family premium to nearly $26,000—and then tossed families out of their health insurance when employees leave their jobs. Even as Obamacare creates an insurance shortage, it has nevertheless grown so unaffordable that enrollees earning $200,000 per year get $12,000 in subsidies. Growing federal debt threatens Medicare and Medicaid patients’ access to necessary care.

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