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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Alighieri who wrote (14150)3/9/2010 12:27:17 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
C'mon Tim, the assertions in the article are backed up by CBO estimates and independent studies

Which directly ignore the plain relevant facts.

The CBO is just imposing its rules in a non-biased way, but the bill is set up to fit those rules in such a way as to produce a dishonest result.

The 6 years of cost being set off against 10 years of revenue, to produce a "it helps the budget balance" result, is well established.

The fact that you don't have 45 to 50 million involuntarily uninsured Americans is well established.

The fact that mandates on who must be covered and what conditions must be covered increase the cost of providing insurance is obvious, and is also backed by studies.

The idea that people are less likely to die if they get insurance coverage is reasonable, but not certain, and different studies suggest wildly different numbers. Essentially we don't have solid facts here, despite the "independent studies" you might mention.

The fact that a 35 to 39% increase in premiums is an outlier is obvious just by looking at the history of premium increases.

The medical bankruptcy study has numerous flaws which have been pointed out here by several different people.

The fact that Obamacare is neither necessary nor sufficient to find ways to reduce the cost of care is obvious.

Cutting the cost increases of Medicare in half, would require further political changes, and also deal with unpredictable economic changes, the fact that Obamacare can not reasonably be predicted to cut these costs is obvious in direct terms, and also supported by the history of other claims of reforms that would stop the runaway growth in costs.
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