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Americans Believe Obamacare Will Raise Premiums

BK22 Wrote: Dec 15, 2009 1:39 PM
but for what. Obamacare will NOT cover everyone. Obamacare will cut benefits. Obamacare will raise costs. Obamacare will have no safeguards. Obamacare will create greater hardships on businesses and individuals.

Good plan!
An Associated Press poll shows that Americans are, on average, smarter than Obama economists: they know Obamacare will make health insurance and health care more expensive:



Hattip Bryan Caplan, who passed along this comment:

Remember - the question asks people about their own costs.  So would pro-Obama economists disagree?  Or would they privately accept with these numbers - or even call them optimistic?  Non-economists probably interpret this question distributionally, but economists of all political persuasions would hopefully also consider the effect on the overall rate of growth of medical spending.
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