Making Health Care Worse

As Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan recently argued, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) was sold on “three broken promises.” The administration pledged that its massive health-care-reform law would be paid for without hiking taxes on middle-class families, that it would reduce the cost of insurance, and that it would allow all Americans to keep their existing insurance if they wished.

Ryan is correct: On all these grounds, the administration has made promises it cannot keep. Even worse, however, than its failure to deliver the benefits it advertised is the actual harm that Obamacare policies will cause — policies that will make it harder for the U.S. to develop sustainable health-care reform.
“Health-care reform won’t raise taxes on families earning less than $250,000.”
President Obama initially made that pledge during the 2008 campaign. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the individual mandate can stand only as an exercise of Congress’s power to tax, the administration will have trouble claiming that it has not raised taxes on middle-income Americans.

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