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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:
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.
Americans Believe Obamacare Will Raise Premiums
Again, the problem with ObamaCare is that it tries to preserve much of the current system. Cigna and Aetna and Blue Cross aren't going to shutter their doors.
The only REAL way to get a handle on costs is to go to a single payer, universal system, like the Canadians or Brits have.