In defense of resisting Obamacare

Over at the Washington Post, for example, Jonathan Bernstein used my work to argue that opponents are undermining implementation so they can complain Obamacare doesn’t work. Specifically, he cited my feature story on five ways Obamacare could fail and my argument against the NFL forming a marketing partnership to promote the health care law.

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In other words, Bernstein’s point is that on one hand, I observed that getting more younger and healthier Americans to sign up for insurance is essential to Obamacare, and yet on the other hand, I attacked efforts to educate them about the law…

My basic disagreement with him is that I believe the problems with Obamacare stem from its very design. For instance, the reason why it’s questionable that young people will sign up for insurance is that Obamacare’s design makes insurance much more expensive for younger individuals in the name of making it more accessible for older and sicker Americans…

So to reiterate, Obamacare made insurance a bad deal for many young Americans by design. Why should American football fans who oppose Obamacare and just want to be able to watch games free of politics on Sunday be made to suffer for this design flaw? Why should those who oppose the law allow the sports world to be hijacked without raising a fuss?

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