{"id":8315,"date":"2013-12-03T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/03\/the-actuarial-absurdity-of-obamacare\/"},"modified":"2013-12-03T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:08:23","slug":"the-actuarial-absurdity-of-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/03\/the-actuarial-absurdity-of-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Actuarial Absurdity of Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Obamacare to work, the young must sign up.  But will they?  Why should they?  Jeffrey H. Anderson<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In its government-run exchanges, Obamacare raises premiums for the young by suspending actuarial science. It forbids insurers from considering some variables that are actuarially relevant to health care, such as sex and health, while also limiting their ability to take age into account in an actuarially based way. Under ordinary principles of insurance, a healthy young person pays a lot less than a person nearing retirement. Under Obamacare, that\u2019s not so. Yet President Obama\u2019s centerpiece legislation depends upon young people\u2019s willingness to pay these artificially inflated premiums. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another reason the young are unlikely to show up in sufficient numbers is that Obamacare gives many of them an easy out: They can stay on their parents\u2019 insurance free of charge until they\u2019re 26. As for the rest, with the elimination of preexisting conditions as a barrier to buying health insurance, many will choose to go without coverage until they\u2019re sick or injured.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, Obama-care makes insurance more costly while simultaneously making it less necessary\u2014especially for the young. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You ought to read the entire piece, especially if you are young and healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The more I know about Obamacare, the more crack-brained (you can take that word in two senses) it appears.  The burden of redistribution is to be borne by the young, precisely those least capable of carrying it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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For Obamacare to work, the young must sign up.  But will they?  Why should they?  Jeffrey H. Anderson: In its government-run exchanges, Obamacare raises premiums for the young by suspending actuarial science. It forbids insurers from considering some variables that are actuarially relevant to health care, such as sex and health, while also limiting their … Continue reading “The Actuarial Absurdity of Obamacare”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}