The problem with group coverage

The problem with group coverage

Columnist Thomas Sowell and Robert Moffit of the Heritage Foundation are entitled to criticize Obamacare. Obamacare is a dilatory bill that I expect will be repealed or substantively gutted one way or another.

Anti-universal health folks, such as Sowell, Moffit, and Cal Thomas, would be a lot more credible if they’d examine America’s unique group health insurance in as much detail as they have Obamacare.

Group health insurance is actuarial moonshine. It’s bad product that transfers populations from uninsured status to insured status in unexpected ways that no individual consumer or government bureaucrat could ever imagine. Group health insurance is so inimical to good sense that arguments for its outright abolition have been around for decades. The major political lobbies that deal with health care drown out those voices by sheer volume of rhetoric.

Next time you see an article denouncing universal health care, think about this. About 160 million Americans are covered by group health insurance. Are you sure they’re the right people?

Jack Labusch, Niles