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Ge Bai

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Ge Bai

@GeBaiDC

Professor of Accounting @JHUCarey @JohnsHopkins, Professor of Health Policy & Mgt @JohnsHopkinsSPH @BSPH_HPM, former visiting scholar @USCBO, CPA, Healthcare $

Washington, DC

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Joined December 2015

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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Dec 30, 2025
ObamaCare Is a Money Pit for Taxpayers @WSJ @WSJopinion "Using health insurers’ mandatory filings, our study, published Friday in JAMA Health Forum, shows that the ObamaCare individual market has become a money pit for taxpayers. In 2024 they paid nearly 80% of the premiums for
Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Dec 29, 2025
Today's @WSJ op-ed with Elizabeth Plummer: ObamaCare Is a Money Pit for Taxpayers Congress may yet extend ObamaCare “enhanced” premium subsidies. A new study shows why that would be a reckless act toward taxpayers. Using health insurers’ mandatory filings, our study, published
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Dec 8, 2024
Make "health insurance" insurance again. Insurance is NOT meant to cover routine, low-cost services. Doing so makes premiums prohibitively expensive. Car insurance plans that cover oil changes and home insurance plans that cover faucet repairs would be priced out of the
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Oct 23, 2025
The ACA banned them, Robert.
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Oct 12, 2025
“We destroyed healthcare affordability when we let the federal government get involved” @RoleighMartin
Roleigh Martin
@RoleighMartin
Oct 12, 2025
Replying to @GeBaiDC
I worked 34 years in the largest health insurance company doing national data analytics and have a shared patent using AI against such data. x.com/RoleighMartin/… We destroyed healthcare affordability when we let the federal government get involved (it wasn't prior to the
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Nov 20, 2024
Trump's Top Candidate for FDA Seen To Be ⁦⁦@MartyMakary⁩ - Bloomberg ⁦
Marty Makary Seen as Leading Candidate for Trump FDA Nomination
From bloomberg.com
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Oct 4, 2025
1⃣The ACA jacked up insurance premiums. 2⃣The ACA created an illusion of affordability for low-income Americans via premium subsidies. 3⃣During COVID, Congress expanded premium subsidy eligibility to higher-income Americans until Dec 2025. 4⃣Now, Congress is deciding: end #3 as
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Oct 11, 2025
A refresher on why the ACA made insurance expensive.
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Oct 1, 2025
“By luring people to these expensive plans and making them dependent on subsidies, lawmakers not only wasted taxpayer dollars and invited fraud but also effectively killed the market for affordable alternatives. Continuing this scheme would be fiscally reckless and irresponsible
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Oct 13, 2025
.@RepMTG to @mcuban: "Full price transparency with a market that allows for competition, driving down costs and driving up quality of care to earn patients, seems like a first step that most people can get behind." Competition is key. Why do cash-pay surgeons and clinics
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
@FmrRepMTG
Oct 13, 2025
Mark I appreciate the dialogue. I agree that those two financial affordability questions are important. There is consensus that full price transparency is one of the fundamental first steps in correcting the system. Patients should be able to look at all medical costs the same
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Oct 7, 2025
Why Are ACA Plans Expensive? Detailed Explanations ⬇️
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Nov 4, 2025
The Amish, who pay cash for healthcare, have low utilization, low spending, and better health.
Matt Wimble
@WimbleMatt
Nov 4, 2025
Replying to @GeBaiDC
The Amish studies are illustrative. The Amish have always demanded price lists at nearby hospitals because they believe in medical care, but not insurance. Hi Ge.
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Oct 17, 2025
Replying to @FmrRepMTG and @RepMTG
"As Americans start to understand how expensive these plans really are, they will begin demanding genuine insurance that covers only major events at affordable premiums. Innovative options—such as direct primary and specialty care, association plans, health-share ministries, and
Opinion | Let the ObamaCare Enhanced Premium Subsidies Expire
From wsj.com
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Nov 27, 2024
First @MartyMakary, now @DrJBhattacharya. What a fantastic week!
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Ge Bai
@GeBaiDC
Sep 30, 2025
Let the ObamaCare Enhanced Premium Subsidies Expire, my article @WSJ The Covid-era payments are masking the true cost of plans on the exchanges and distorting insurance markets. As Americans start to understand how expensive these plans really are, they will begin demanding
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