Why--and how--to repeal and replace Obamacare, a Book Review by David R. Henderson of A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America by John C. Goodman
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Henderson, David
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2015
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If you think that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare) is bad because of its expense, the distortions it causes in the labor market, its failure to provide people what they really want, and its highly unequal treatment of people in similar situations, wait until you read John C. Goodman’s "A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America." You will likely conclude that the ACA is even worse than you thought. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Goodman, a health economist and senior fellow with the Independent Institute, proposes reforms that would do more for the uninsured than the ACA does, and at lower cost, and also would make things better for the currently insured. And it would do all this while avoiding mandates, creating more real competition among insurers, and making the health care sector more responsive to consumers. Not all of his proposals are problem-free, but many of them are a step in the right direction.
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3 p.
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D. Henderson, "How--and--why to repeal and replace Obamacare", Regulation, (Fall 2015), pp.44-46
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