Obamacare

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Some interesting questions about Obamacare.

A problem is that the underlying assumption within that link (Bloomberg) is not valid,
or at least it was not the primary raison-d'etre for the Affordable Care Act.
Most the issues in that link are based on a thesis of "saving $". For example:

Here’s another interesting observation I heard the other day,
this time from a participant in the recent Brookings' papers:
it’s not clear that ACOs are going to save money.

But the primary basis of the ACA / Obamacare primarily was to insure
the (15 ?) millions of people who did not have their own health insurance,
and then to support these newly "insured" by inducing larger numbers
of relatively healthy (working younger people) to buy into their own
health insurance instead of going without.

It's a matter of POV.