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Yet Another Reason to Slow Down Health Reform

Posted By Michael F. Cannon On July 23, 2009 @ 8:47 am In Health Care | Comments Disabled

In support of his health plan, President Obama yesterday repeated ^[1] one of his favorite alarmist claims:

If we don’t act, 14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day.

Really? Does the president mean to suggest that number of uninsured Americans (estimated ^[2] to be 46 million) would double in nine years, and employment-based health insurance ^[3] would vanish — without anything to replace it — within 32 years?

Or is the president not giving us the whole truth?

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[1] repeated: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/us/politics/22obama.transcript.html

[2] estimated: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/09/11/response-to-my-usa-today-oped/

[3] employment-based health insurance: http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/EBRI_IB_09a-2008.pdf

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