Cost-Sharing, One Way Or Another

Many pundits are slamming Paul Ryan's Medicare plan because it would increase healthcare cost-sharing. Peter Suderman asks them to take a harder look at Obama's healthcare law:

What these criticisms tend to leave out is that ObamaCare is almost certain to increase cost-sharing too. According to a new survey of employers by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 84 percent of employers expect to make changes in order to help offset the additional cost burden imposed by the new health care law. In practice, as John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis notes in a summary of the survey, in practice, "make changes" means "raise premiums, deductibles, and co-payments."