The Truth About Obamacare Costs

"We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care. Families will save on their premiums; businesses that will see their costs rise if we do nothing will save money now and in the future. This plan will strengthen Medicare and extend the life of that program. And because it gets rid of the waste and inefficiencies in our health care system, this will be the largest deficit reduction plan in over a
decade.”

The 2011 annual report from the Medicare Board of Trustees casts doubt on the ability of the ObamaCare health reform law to achieve significant health care costs a reduction, stating it is “very uncertain” whether the sweeping reform will succeed in reducing health care costs.

The report, released Friday, said that an improved financial outlook reported for Medicare depended on the ability of ObamaCare’s cost-savings experiments to bear fruit – an outcome the Trustees found
unlikely.

TexasBlue wrote:Apparently you never read the linked page and the PDF files from their report.

“Over the long term, health care costs have been driven in significant part by new and better health care technology,” said the administration official. “Nobody’s going to stop inventing these things; we’re all going to want them for ourselves and our loved ones. So there will still be cost factors in the future.

Cookie Parker wrote:Oh, but I did.

Cookie Parker wrote:And there is nothing to worry about. It's the COST of health care, the UNREGULATED business pushing the costs higher, not the Health Care Reform Law causing any damage to it.

Cookie Parker wrote:Despite what the right pushed for so long, The Health Care Reform Law did NOT interfere with the "free market" monopolies the right has created.

TexasBlue wrote:

Cookie Parker wrote:Oh, but I did.

I hardly think so.

Also, they said that they are “very uncertain” whether the sweeping reform will succeed in reducing health care costs.

Cookie Parker wrote:And there is nothing to worry about. It's the COST of health care, the UNREGULATED business pushing the costs higher, not the Health Care Reform Law causing any damage to it.

You forget massive gov't regulation AND lack of tort reform.

Cookie Parker wrote:Despite what the right pushed for so long, The Health Care Reform Law did NOT interfere with the "free market" monopolies the right has created.

Bleh. The law hasn't been fully implemented. Your second sentence is null and void.

Cookie Parker wrote:It's the COST of health care, the UNREGULATED business pushing the costs higher...