Why is there skepticism about the Republican concept?
“It’s not the concept that is the problem. Quite the contrary, it’s a fine idea,” said Ron Pollack, founding executive director of Families USA, a consumer health care advocacy group. But he expressed concern about efforts to de-regulate the market. “The real underlying issue is that Republicans and others who created this do not want to create adequate standards for the sale of health care.” That would result in policies that “perpetuate the practices that have harmed consumers,” he said.