Health Care Deform

Here is a new Cato Institute analysis of the recently passed health care reform bill.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11961

And the white paper, for more detailed information:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/BadMedicineWP.pdf

The short version is this: Based on its own promises, ObamaCare fails. Universal coverage is not achieved. Insurance premiums will not be reduced. Health care spending will not be controlled.

And a couple quotes:
"A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States."
- Robert Hartman and Paul van de Water, "The Budgetary Treatment of an Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance," Congressional Budget Office Memorandum, August 1994.

"Nearly every reform proposal offered to fix 'the health-care crisis' calls for increased governmental control of medicine. These proposals are the logical result of the belief that there is a 'right' to medical care. But there is no such right. Rights, properly understood, do not include an entitlement to the services of others."
- William Dale, "Free Medicine" [1994]