Captain Obvious
10-02-2014, 09:25 AM
From the liberal rag wasteland known as NPR:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/01/353015519/obamacares-first-year-howd-it-go
Lots of experts disagree with that last part. They say we really don't know if, or how much, Obamacare has restrained health care cost increases. But, even skeptics of the law, like Bob Laszewski of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, agree with the first part.
But Laszewski argues that current premium costs are distorted by a government program that protects insurance companies from losses in the first three years of the marketplace.
Health Costs Inch Up As Obamacare Kicks In
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/12/347944961/health-costs-inch-up-as-obamacare-kicks-in
But analysts called the second-quarter increases modest and said there is little evidence to suggest that wider coverage and a recovering economy are pushing health spending growth to the painful levels of a decade ago.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/01/353015519/obamacares-first-year-howd-it-go
Lots of experts disagree with that last part. They say we really don't know if, or how much, Obamacare has restrained health care cost increases. But, even skeptics of the law, like Bob Laszewski of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, agree with the first part.
But Laszewski argues that current premium costs are distorted by a government program that protects insurance companies from losses in the first three years of the marketplace.
Health Costs Inch Up As Obamacare Kicks In
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/12/347944961/health-costs-inch-up-as-obamacare-kicks-in
But analysts called the second-quarter increases modest and said there is little evidence to suggest that wider coverage and a recovering economy are pushing health spending growth to the painful levels of a decade ago.