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06 December 2013

ObamaCare's Promises

Tevi Troy’s article in the 12.01.13 Commentary, “The Three Failed Promises of ObamaCare,” is an enlightened discussion of the issues that bedevil ObamaCare, but its objective of measuring the efficacy of the law against its stated goals is only an evaluation of its marketing strategy (admittedly wrong), not of its efficacy, which I believe will prove satisfactory. As attributed to Liberals by the author, they are embarrassed that we’ve waited this long to make the effort to make basic healthcare available to everyone in our rich society. However, the three points Mr. Troy makes require the following comments:

1) First, Mr. Troy’s point that ObamaCare did not anticipate the Great Recession is well-taken. Inevitably, that made it all the more likely that some employed people would lose their current health coverage
2) The $2500 reduction in the cost of healthcare predicted by Obama is not simply Washington Speak, but an unspoken reduction from what all the benefits of the new program would have cost if the law had not been adopted. Of course, universal healthcare costs more than care for the health only of those who can afford it. Moreover, ObamaCare cannot be blamed for the American tendency to spend more on healthcare that derives from the belief that “we deserve it” or simply because a new therapy has been developed.
3) It was a gaff to say that you could keep your old healthcare plan if you liked it—that plan had to stay In existence for that assurance to be valid. Moreover, ObamaCare makes the common, and faulty, assumption that healthcare has a flat-line objective. It really strives to achieve continually more perfect states of physical (and mental) well-being as new discoveries in pharmacology and medical procedures are made—at increasing expense.

The differences between Liberals and Conservatives will unavoidably result in clashing takes on ObamaCare. Its implementation will certainly result in less choice and wealth for everyone, but also in a better general state of health.

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