This is a long and somewhat involved followup to my previous post on ObamaCare. For those of you with O.A.D.D. (online attention-deficit disorder), I’ve provided an express and local version.
EXPRESS:
The official projections for health-care reform, which show it greatly reducing the number of uninsured and also reducing the budget deficit, are simply not credible. There are three basic issues.
1. The cost and revenue projections rely on unrealistic assumptions and accounting tricks. If you make some adjustments for these, the cost of the plan is much higher.
2. The so-called “individual mandate” isn’t really a mandate at all. Under the new system, many young and healthy people will still have a strong incentive to go uninsured.
3. Once the reforms are up and running, some employers will have a big incentive to end their group coverage plans and dump their employees onto the taxpayer-subsidized individual plans, greatly adding to their cost.
Full story: Rational Irrationality: ObamaCare by the Numbers: Part 2 : The New Yorker