Side effects and complications
Subtitle: the economic consequences of health-care reform
By: Casey B. Mulligan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780226285603
Subjects: United States; Health care reform
Description: "The Affordable Care Act will have a dangerous effect on the American economy. That may sound like a political stance, but it's a conclusion directly borne out of economic forecasts. In Side Effects and Complications, preeminent labor economist Casey B. Mulligan brings to light the dire economic realities that have been lost in the ideological debate over the ACA, and he offers an eye-opening, accessible look at the price American citizens will pay because of it"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: The paradox of affordability; title: Too good to be true: the health reform's hidden taxes; title: Some unpleasant penalty arithmetic; title: Some unpleasant subsidy arithmetic; title: Exchange subsidies and their implicit income taxes; title: Consequences for employee work schedules; title: Adam Smith's equalizing differences: more hidden taxes and more health coverage; title: The ACA's productivity distortions; title: Other significant causes of economic change, 2007-2017; title: Romneycare times eleven.