Reviews for The Truth About Obamacare

The average rating for The Truth About Obamacare based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-10-30 00:00:00 Spencer Cooreman This book provides an easy to read synopsis of the recent health care reform. Pipes does a good job of bringing up the counter arguments to those who defend ObamaCare as a necessary step in the right direction. 1. She provides a brief summary of the history of health care in the US which brought us to our current situation. 2. She presents the data to show the problem of the uninsured is not 15% of our population but closer to 3%. 3. She explains how the PPACA (aka ObamaCare) will exacerbate rising health care costs because it misidentifies the causes of rising costs. 4. She provides a succinct explanation of how laws, government policies and regulations make medical care unaffordable for a significant segment of our population. 4. She explains how ObamaCare will increase the problems of inaccessibility to medical care, restrict our choices and eventually lead to rationing. But no need to despair. In her last chapter, Pipes offers some alternative solutions which will increase choice, increase affordability and set us back on the path of ever-improving medical care. For anyone who has been closely following the health care debate and the development of PPACA, this book adds nothing new. It does put into one easy-to-read place a brief outline and introduction to the major issues involved. For those just getting interested in the topic, it's a great place to start. 220 pages. Large type. Well referenced.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-12 00:00:00 David Ahlers Time will tell how bad it is, but looks like many employer burdens are being pushed back and surely other executive orders (and whims) that the author did not foresee but probably would have sounded crazy to have written in the book. Not sure whether you really needed a book to warn of a bloated bureaucracy, even if the book is still many many pages fewer than the legislation itself. On the plus side, the success of a program people are forced to buy into is aided by so many employers dumping coverage. I think if you listened to just about all the arguments at the time, a lot of this would not be new. Along with how the CBO merely grades whatever is put before it without making any subjective decisions with regards to practicality or whether the true costs would be quietly pushed through in separate legislation. (Much like the Secure Fence Act which passed.. but a separate bill was needed to fund it.) Does of course warn that one-size fits all policies are costly and mean you are paying for things you will never use, such as Mormons having to get policies which cover substance abuse recovery.