Obamacare Won’t ‘Solve’ Uninsured Problem, Either
June 29, 2012
Yuval Levin at National Review Online reviews some of the practical effects of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision:
Combined, these two rather arbitrary acts of revision mean that if the CBO reassesses the law’s effect on the number of Americans without insurance (which it certainly will do) using the same methods it used originally, it is likely to find a much smaller reduction in the uninsured.
…and it hasn’t even been fully implemented yet.
At National Review Online, Avik Roy offers an thorough but concise overview of all that has happened in the last year relating to Obamacare, with copious links to his sources. A few excerpts:
Massachusetts continued to give us a preview of what Obamacare would do to the country. In May, studies found that, contrary to what was promised, the new health-care regime increased emergency-room crowding, and increased already-long wait times for doctors’ appointments.