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Senator Bernie Sanders and his advisors have not caught onto the fact that the problem for consumers and patients is no longer the list prices of prescription drugs but skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs due to health insurance benefit design.

A proposal on Beacon Hill to expand insurance subsidies up to 500 percent of the federal poverty level, could push the small business insurance market into a death spiral, without reducing the number of uninsured and hurting those with preexisting conditions.