Comments on: Why the Affordable Care Act, as Construed by the Supreme Court, Will Fail http://truthonthemarket.com/2012/10/08/why-the-affordable-care-act-as-construed-by-the-supreme-court-will-fail/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Thu, 09 May 2013 22:36:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jimbino http://truthonthemarket.com/2012/10/08/why-the-affordable-care-act-as-construed-by-the-supreme-court-will-fail/#comment-54253 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:28:20 +0000 http://truthonthemarket.com/?p=13933#comment-54253 I’m a total non-believer in insurance of every kind. When I need health care, of course I will take advantage of the emergency care available locally, since I have already paid half its costs by way of general taxes; I will use health care available free to me at my local clinics in Brazil; I will rely on dental and health care available at a reasonable price in Mexico, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Thailand.

I think there might be a great future in transporting uninsured folks to Mexico, where they might enjoy the availability of health care as it was in the 1950s and 1960s. Docs and dentists there actually advertise their prices!

A young, single, childfree man living in Texas would have to be an idiot to participate in health care via Obamacare. Most of his premiums would go to kids, breeders, and hypochondriac women. A bus ticket, or even a plane ticket, to Mexico would be far cheaper.

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]]> By: northfork investor http://truthonthemarket.com/2012/10/08/why-the-affordable-care-act-as-construed-by-the-supreme-court-will-fail/#comment-53846 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:36:11 +0000 http://truthonthemarket.com/?p=13933#comment-53846 while i don’t disgree with Lambert that it would be nice to stimulate price competition among health care providers (and insurers) and to end the tax subsidization of health insurance, he has very little empirical support for several of his conclusions. The table on page 6 is devoid of either data-driven or logical support and implicitly ascribes a value of near-zero to the benefits of health insurance for healthy people. There are many reasons to doubt this;however, even if some of these heathy (and not-accident prone) people stupidly ascribe no value to health insurance at least their penalties will pay some of the other costs of the health care system.

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