Why is David Cutler Shilling for the Administration?
This was in a Cutler editorial in the Washington Post last Friday:
In 2007, Obama asserted that his health-care reform plan would save $2,500 per family relative to the trends at the time. The criticism was harsh; I know because I helped the then-senator make this forecast. Yet events have shown him to be right.
Cutler is taking the recent slowdown in health spending — which no one thinks was caused by ObamaCare — and attributing it to ObamaCare. He conveniently omits the Administration’s own forecast of the effects of the Affordable Care Act. This is courtesy of Chris Conover:
“Why is David Cutler Shilling for the Administration?”
Because he believes that universal health care is the best path, forget the evidence.
I like that you used the word “believe”. That is all that these “economists” are going on: the hope that collectivism works.
Oh, it was deliberate alright.
Maybe because the ends justify the means? Ulterior motive?
Eh, let’s not jump to conspiracy just yet.
The whole system is a conspiracy. They’re just trying to get us all into Medicaid.
They are either complete idiots or conspirators. Which is worse?
Considering that people elected them thinking they were competent, the idiots one is worse. It means Americans are just as stupid.
Ideologues, ideologues everywhere.
“In 2007, Obama asserted that his health-care reform plan would save $2,500 per family relative to the trends at the time. The criticism was harsh; I know because I helped the then-senator make this forecast. Yet events have shown him to be right.”
Any honest person recognizes that the downturn starting in 2007 is the major contributor to depressed health care costs. David Cutler is a peddler and has lost credibility.
Right, everyday the evidence turns more and more against ObamaCare, the only thing sustaining public support is misinformation.
“Why is David Cutler Shilling for the Administration?”
Check his bank accounts! There’s more here than meets the eye.
I don’t think there’s a need to go that far.
Cutler said “In 2007, Obama asserted that his health-care reform plan would save $2,500 per family relative to the trends at the time.”
Really, Cutler? Relative to the trends at the time? I don’t remember Obama ever adding that qualifier. Did he ever say it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54mEDs6Ov8
You decide.
Total spending = avg spending * n
Your chart is for total spending.
Cutler is talking about average spending per family with a plan.
If n were fixed this wouldn’t be much of a distinction, but Obamacare was supposed to increase n by 15-20%.