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The White House Tries to Buy a Political Win by Raising Your Health Insurance Premiums

Open enrollment may have ended for the current period, but are you ready for your health insurance premiums to increase the next time around? That seems to be the probable outcome after the White House announced a new measure that will force insurers to pay for eight COVID-19 tests a month.

With the administration failing at its promise to start sending out tests to every home at the beginning of January, this latest move is an obvious attempt to buy a political win, but it’s your money they are using.

There are multiple issues with this, but all of them ultimately come down to the complete unnecessity of such an order. Why would anyone need eight COVID-19 tests a month? Even if you get the coronavirus, you aren’t symptomatic for that long outside of the most extreme cases, at which point, you’re going to the hospital anyway.

Further, even if someone were trying to randomly test twice a week under the guise of self-quarantining if they test positive, that still makes no sense. Asymptomatic people either don’t spread the virus at all or do so at an extremely low rate based on the information we currently have. In the end, all testing should come down to one factor: Is a person symptomatic? If they aren’t, it’s incredibly wasteful to be randomly testing.

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