Insurers’ Profits Aren’t the Problem - Jeffrey H. Anderson - Critical Condition on National Review Online

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Insurers’ Profits Aren’t the Problem - Jeffrey H. Anderson - Critical Condition on National Review Online

 

Insurers’ Profits Aren’t the Problem   [Jeffrey H. Anderson]

For an administration that says it’s committed to using empirical evidence to determine “what works,” and a president who says he’s “not an ideologue,” Obamacare’s marketing sure does rely on a healthy dose of fiction. The central inference behind the supposed need to pass Obamacare is that insurance companies are shamelessly gouging us and disproportionately driving up the costs of our entire health-care system. This is demonstrably false. But the Obama administration’s failure to recognize — or to admit — this inconvenient truth, largely explains why its proposed remedies would not only fail to drive health costs down, but would instead raise them up even further.