Still Overlooking the Obvious

Elaborating on a post from earlier today, to be fair when we say the Goldberg Act will result in the "loss" of 2 million jobs, it doesn't necessarily mean that 2 million people will be handed their pink slips. Some people will choose to work fewer hours to qualify for a subsidy, and some older workers may simply retire earlier now that they know they can't be denied private insurance coverage. But as with any market-based system, there will be some losers---people in the upper-middle income brackets who will pay higher premiums, part-time workers whose employers will drop their coverage and force them onto the exchanges, and a few asshole job creators who will take advantage of the law to drop employee coverage altogether. But whether the financial burden is being borne by businesses, individuals or taxpayers, the law still doesn't address the most urgent and obvious problem: We are all paying too much money for a health-care system that mercilessly gouges us because it can. Fix that problem, and the Goldberg Act, by and large, becomes unnecessary.

---Baron V