[lbo-talk] Obamahealth suddenly looking much improved

[John Thornton]

Michael Pollak forwarded:
> Mr Cutler said that, for this to work, it would be necessary to ban 
> risk-based pricing on all health plans, including those sold off 
> exchange. Otherwise the exchange would become a "high-risk pool" 
> dependent on public subsidies.  Banning risk-based pricing could 
> result in healthy people -- in particular young people -- refusing to 
> buy insurance at a price that did not reflect their own risk profile.  
> It could also reduce the incentive for people to take better care of 
> their health.

What evidence is there that people would be motivated to take less care 
of themselves healthwise based on how much they pay for health insurance?
This seems like a ignorant and baseless assumption to me.

John Thornton