On Marck 30, 2024, Paragon President Brian Blase was quoted multiple times in The Washington Post article “Obamacare once cost Democrats elections. Now Biden’s hoping to win on it.”
From the article:
Blase, the former Trump White House official, who now leads the conservative-leaning Paragon Health Institute, framed the turnaround in the ACA’s fortunes as part of a natural political cycle.
“The Democrats overreached in 2010, and you had a reaction,” Blase said in an interview this week. “And then the public thought that Republicans overreached on what they were trying to do in 2017, so you had a reaction the other way.”
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Blase, for example, criticizes the ACA’s heavily subsidized health insurance plans, calling it “a very efficient mechanism for the Treasury to transfer money to health insurance companies.” The law’s marketplaces, he added, have become a “welfare program.”
