Bill Keller on "Five Obamacare Myths":

16th July 2012

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Bill Keller on "Five Obamacare Myths": →

OBAMACARE IS A JOB-KILLER. “The impartial truth squad FactCheck.org has debunked the job-killer claim so many times that in its latest update you can hear a groan of weary frustration: words like ‘whopper’ and ‘bogus’ and ‘hooey.’ The job-killer claim is also discredited by the experience under the Massachusetts law on which Obamacare was modeled.”

OBAMACARE IS A FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF HEALTH INSURANCE. “Let’s be blunt. The word for that is ‘lie.’”

THE UNFETTERED MARKETPLACE IS A BETTER SOLUTION. “I’m deeply suspicious of the claim that a health care system dominated by powerful vested interests and mystifying in its complexity can be tamed by consumers who are strapped for time, often poor, sometimes uneducated, confused and afraid.”

LEAVE IT TO THE STATES. THEY’LL FIX IT. “You’ve heard a lot about the Massachusetts law. You may not have heard about the seven other states that passed laws requiring insurers to offer coverage to all. They were dismal failures because they failed to mandate that everyone, including the young and healthy, buy in. Massachusetts — fairly progressive, relatively affluent, with an abundance of health providers — included a mandate and became the successful exception. To expand that program beyond Massachusetts required … Barack Obama.”

OBAMACARE IS A LOSER. RUN AGAINST IT, RUN FROM IT, BUT FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE DON’T RUN ON IT. “If the Obama campaign needs a snappy one-liner, it could borrow this one from David Cutler: ‘Never before in history has a candidate run for president with the idea that too many people have insurance coverage.’”

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Bill Keller on "Five Obamacare Myths": →