Turns out many of the newly insured are obtaining health insurance for the first time in their lives. They don’t understand deductibles and copayments and they don’t understand why they should have to pay premiums when they are healthy—especially when they used to get care for free.
Buyer’s Remorse
Also published in Forbes Wed. August 13, 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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