For Obamacare It Matters If Enrollees Are Skewed by Health, Not Age

The NYT had yet another silly front page piece warning that Obamacare is about to go under, this time because not enough young people are signing up. If it keeps doing this, people will mistake it for a Jeff Bezos publication.


The point, which was shown in this Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, is that the age skewing really doesn't matter much for the success of the program. The fee structure of Obamacare is designed to somewhat favor older enrollees, but the gap is not very large. The Kais...

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Published on January 13, 2014 18:51
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