Thursday, June 21, 2012

Obamacare’s Failings Go Well Beyond the Individual Mandate and Medicaid 

I have a new issue brief at the Heritage Foundation on four of the worst problems with Obamacare that are not under review by the Supreme Court. Here’s one:

Obamacare will exacerbate the nation’s already alarming entitlement spending and debt crises. Already, the dramatic rise in spending on Medicare and Medicaid is pushing the federal budget to the breaking point. Obamacare makes the problem much worse by creating two new additional entitlement programs in the form of a massive Medicaid expansion and a new premium credit entitlement for households with incomes between 138 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level. These two entitlement expansions are expected to add a minimum of 35 million Americans to the entitlement rolls when phased in, at an expense of more than $200 billion annually by the end of the decade.

You can read the rest of the article here.

posted by James C. Capretta | 12:45 pm
Tags: Obamacare, Supreme Court
File As: Health Care