In 2017 we'd just had a crazy election, the ACA was a thumbs up away from John McCain from going away and we thought the elimination of Cost Sharing Reduction funding would blow everything up. That was until a clever actuary realized we could raise prices on silver plans and save everything!

On today's episode we explore what happens we explore the mechanism that saved the ACA and at some point, when fueled up with additional steroids from covid funding, almost blew everything up! Welcome to our episode on Silver Loading!