my letter in NY Times criticizing Obamacare (from the left, obviously): As a freelance writer and editor, I am one of the people the Affordable Care Act was supposed to help, but I don’t foresee its insurance exchanges doing that. I buy health insurance through a group of self-employed people, so I already get “one-stop shopping with a side-by-side comparison of health plans.” That means I get an informed choice among several increasingly costly and inadequate for-profit plans. I now pay more for a high-deductible plan (“bronze”) that covers next to nothing than I did for partial coverage (“silver” or “gold”) in 2009. Maybe Obamacare’s subsidies will help, but we don’t know yet how much they’ll be. We’d be much better off with Medicare for everyone than with this Rube Goldberg scheme written to satisfy the insurance lobby. STEVEN WISHNIA New York, Aug. 21 2013 nytimes/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-blocking-health-reform.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=opinion
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:34:58 +0000
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