Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Broken promise No. 2: ‘More people will have health coverage’

San Diego Union-Tribune
This week, we’re looking at the broken promises that President Barack Obama used to sell the Affordable Care Act. This editorial’s focus: The assertion that under Obamacare, more Americans will have health coverage. The president’s happy talk would lead us to believe that many millions of people more are sure to have health insurance after Obamacare takes effect. But that ignores the perverse incentives in the massively complex law — and it assumes the law will be competently implemented by the states and embraced by the uninsured.