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Tag Archives: perverse incentives
Obamacare Makes Cost-Shifting Fun!
Comment: Obamacare(tm) supporters insisted Obamacare’s(tm) magic was needed to end “cost-shifting” (that’s when uninsured people get care, and the public gets stuck with their bill). But, their health-control-plus-horrible-website law makes it easier than ever to shift your costs onto Obamacare(tm) … Continue reading
Posted in Designed to Fail, Perversities
Tagged fines, lies, perverse incentives, preexisting conditions, resistance, unintended consequences, unworkable
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Incentives: Larger Employers Save $3 Trillion by Dumping You Onto Obamacare Exchanges
Comment: The widely-quoted “If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan” seems to have left another sentiment unsaid: “But good luck trying as we make it impossible for insurance companies to offer your old plan, and … Continue reading
Posted in Designed to Fail, Government Takeover, Growing Dependency
Tagged broken promises, employer mandate, Exchanges, keep your doctor, keep your plan, lies, perverse incentives, single payer, unworkable
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Obamacare: Hurting Retirement Plans
Comment: It’s an economic maxim that the total cost of employing a worker is what matters to an employer, and it makes the employer no never mind how much is wages, taxes, or benefits. Costs are costs. So, if you … Continue reading
Posted in Perversities
Tagged employer mandate, perverse incentives, unintended consequences
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Obamacare Signups: Eighty Percent Moochers
Comment: Obamacare divides America into moochers and losers. Subsidies are for moochers. If you’re not getting one you’re a loser, paying for those who aren’t. Question: if it’s “affordable,” why do eighty percent need subsidies? “Monday is the deadline to … Continue reading
Posted in Government Takeover, Growing Dependency, Perversities
Tagged Medicaid, perverse incentives, premiums, prices, subsidies, unaffordable
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Employers: Penalty 18x Higher for Offering ‘Unapproved’ Than No Insurance
Comment: They WANT your employer to drop you. “If your employer offers you insurance that doesn’t provide free ella, or anything else on the list of “preventive services”—as defined by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and ultimately by … Continue reading
Posted in Government Takeover, Perversities
Tagged broken promises, costs, coverage, employer mandate, keep your plan, lies, perverse incentives, unintended consequences, unworkable
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Obamacare: Work Less, or Suffer the Consequences
Comment: complementing the recent CBO report that the American economy will lose 2.5 million worker-equivalents due to Obamcare, here’s another Obamacare reason to work less and not bother trying to get ahead… “The Obamacare subsidy cliff is so steep that … Continue reading
Posted in Growing Dependency
Tagged perverse incentives, subsidies, subsidy cliff, unintended consequences, unworkable
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The Coming Failure of the Obamacare Subsidies
[…] “…the notion that the subsidies will never stop, or that they are figuratively heroin-like in nature, is false.” “…For the healthy, the subsidies are… a month-by-month financial pain inflicting mandate forcing millions of Americans to buy a product they … Continue reading
Posted in Designed to Fail
Tagged costs, coverage, deductibles, Exchanges, fines, guaranteed issue, individual mandate, insurance, insurance death spiral, IRS, opt-out, penalties, perverse incentives, preexisting conditions, premiums, pushback, resistance, subsidies, tax credits, unaffordable, unions, unworkable, worst, young adults
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Obamacare? No thanks, I’ll pay the penalty
“For some folks, health insurance just isn’t a good deal. Take Jessica Birge, 29, who is studying nursing [...]” “”I don’t really want to pay a penalty, but it’s more economical for me to pay $300 a year [in fines] … Continue reading
Posted in Designed to Fail
Tagged costs, fines, individual mandate, opt-out, penalties, perverse incentives, pushback, resistance, unworkable, young adults
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Hospitals Will Lose, Not Gain, Under Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
Comment: Here’s a hard question Medicaid expansion supporters can’t answer: Isn’t it true that hospitals lose money on every Medicaid patient that comes in the door? Why, then, do hospitals think it makes sense to expand the program? Do they really expect to … Continue reading
Posted in Designed to Fail
Tagged Exchanges, Hospitals, Medicaid, Medicaid expansion, perverse incentives, reduced reimbursements, unintended consequences
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Blog Wars: Obamacare Supporters Deliberately Spreading Misinformation
Let’s be very clear: The Supreme Court ruled in the Obamacare case that the government CANNOT force you to buy a product. It can only force you to pay a tax, but we knew that already. So the following exchange … Continue reading
Posted in Designed to Fail
Tagged constitutional, Exchanges, fines, guaranteed issue, individual mandate, insurance, insurance death spiral, Liberty, lies, original reporting, penalties, perverse incentives, preexisting conditions, pushback, resistance, tax credits, unaffordable, unintended consequences, unworkable
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