Posted on May 7, 2013

Bill Clinton: We Need Five Years To Judge Obamacare

Former President Bill Clinton addresses the approach to health care in the United States and changes that have to be made to get an honest gauge of the viability of the Affordable Care Act. He speaks at the Peterson Fiscal Summit.





CLINTON: We really need about five year to see whether the drivers in the healthcare law, which clearly are trying to give incentives for people to be healthier and incentives for the sysem to give healthcare where you pay for results rather than procedure. To see if that works. The problem is, neither the Office of Management and Budget or the Congressional Budget Office will score it. They want us to score this, and do all this healthcare stuff, based on what is a realistic projection of increasing healthcare costs. If you keep the insurance system, the delivery system, and our lifestyles exactly as they have been and project that out. We have to change all three those things, and if you're not willing to do that, we're not going to get anywhere.