Monday, December 23, 2013

Obamacare Premise Faulty

Harvard Business School hires top people, one of whom is Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic. He has written something sensible for Huffington Post, an otherwise suspect source to which COTTonLINE seldom links.

George's topic is the poorly designed and feebly implemented Obamacare. After summarizing the many post-debut changes and "fixes" the White House has announced, he concludes:
All these changes are exposing the flawed premise on which Obamacare is based: that the healthy young are willing to pay much more for insurance in order to support the unhealthy elderly. This policy marks the first time in U.S. history that we are asking the young to pay for the old; historically, it has always been the other way around.

All this comes at a time when youth unemployment is still in double digits and many more young people are stuck in low-paying jobs that barely enable them to make ends meet.