Interesting anaylsis from Martin Feldstein at the Washington Post. Here is the story.
Generally speaking, unless there is an incentive for a relatively healthy person to purchase Health Insurance (or disincentive to be uninsured), there will be significant “selection of risk” issues with the Private Insurance companies which would result in higher premium rates (potentially, creating a downward-spiral effect).
Thoughts?
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