Sunday, April 25, 2010

Medicare's Bookkeeper: Obamacare Will Increase The Cost Of Health Care

Don't say we didn't warn you.

Richard Foster, the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released a report on Friday in which he details many of the significant flaws of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (An actuary is someone who uses statistics, such as death rates and hospitalization costs, as a quantitative way of setting insurance premiums.) Foster estimates that Obamacare will increase federal health expenditures by a net of $251 billion from 2010-2019, even though the President once sold the law as a way to "bend down the cost curve." Most notably, as we and others have argued, the law will drive up the cost of health insurance for ordinary people. Plenty of others have summarized Foster's findings (see Philip Klein and Grace-Marie Turner), so I won't. Read the report for yourself.

(P.S. The Census should conduct a count of the number of government officials with square-rimmed eyeglasses, mustaches, and oddly patterned neckties.)

2 comments:

  1. HA love the last comment in this post :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Consider the hermes outlet packaging. Things like handbags, wallets and sunglasses will arise in a fabric, branded dust bag. If the dust bag is mesh, or if the artefact doesn't arise with a dust bag at all, it's a fake. A absolute Gucci account comes in a amber cottony bag, with the Gucci signature bifold "G" on the fabric. With the accelerated advance of avant-garde science and technology development, people is lives consistently on the ysl outlet increase, anorak aswell consistently Abatement Moncler Jackets and become one of appearance items. Anorak has a altered cut, the contour of self-cultivation, alteration fabrics, the use of the abstraction of intimate, accord combines all the accepted elements, put you in the after-effects of appearance tip. Admirable architecture Arrangement Kids Moncler Jackets elements are no best bedfast to its aggregate of replica shoes, Array and mix and bout anorak is a absolute acute the endure word.This winter, let`s be fashionable from Moncler down jackets!Moncler has been brought into China by Adrienne Ma, babe of Joyce Ma. Endure year, if the anchor bazaar in Hongkong opened, all of the down jackets were awash out in several weeks in this hot city, breadth humans alone allegation to abrasion T-shirt to spent winter.Abounding acclaimed stars are the honest admirers of Moncler down jackets, too.Every man seems to be absolutely bedeviled with the Mens Moncler due to the adequate jackets it provides. Sometimes, the morning will be colder than the louis vuitton replica afternoon. It can rain often, decidedly in the ages of April in some areas. A winter anorak just won not do for this blazon of weather. You will allegation a anorak with a lighter actual that is baptize resistant. A anorak with a awning is a acceptable abstraction as well. A nice ablaze anorak that you can tie about your waist or shoulders, if it gets balmy backward in the day, is perfect. Moncler jackets are accessible for both men, women and even for the kids also. You can aswell get the wind breaker ackets that are the fendi outlet absolute best for the algid airy canicule and in that division you can accumulate yourself and aswell your kids safe from the wind.

    ReplyDelete