You have completely misinterpreted the testimony. According to CBO, because health reform will bring will lover premiums in the individual market, some people who work only in order to get the benefit of an employer-sponsored health plan (single mothers, for example,) will no longer find it necessary to work. That is a good thing, not a bad thing.
So how will the law lower healthcare cost? This is a pipe dream. Bigger government will not magically lower cost. Don't say price controls will lower cost, been there done that, it didn't work in the 70s. The reason for the increasing cost today can be traced back to Medicare and Medicaid and the additional paperwork and abuse of the system. Government has only made cost go up not down.
You have completely misinterpreted the testimony. According to CBO, because health reform will bring will lover premiums in the individual market, some people who work only in order to get the benefit of an employer-sponsored health plan (single mothers, for example,) will no longer find it necessary to work.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good thing, not a bad thing.
So how will the law lower healthcare cost? This is a pipe dream. Bigger government will not magically lower cost. Don't say price controls will lower cost, been there done that, it didn't work in the 70s. The reason for the increasing cost today can be traced back to Medicare and Medicaid and the additional paperwork and abuse of the system. Government has only made cost go up not down.
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