Under Obamacare, health insurers have strong incentives to attract the healthy (on whom they make a profit) and avoid the sick (on whom they incur losses). After enrollment, the incentive is to over-provide to the healthy (to keep the ones they have and attract more of them) and to under-provide to the sick (to encourage the exodus of the ones they have and discourage enrollment by any more of them).
More Discrimination Against the Sick
Also published in Forbes Fri. September 26, 2014
John C. Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.
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