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Megan McArdle

Why Obamacare Is Like Three Mile Island

You can't dismantle or delay Obamacare a la carte.

I've been blogging a lot over the past week or so about the risk of an insurance market "death spiral" -- where young people stay away, so the only people buying insurance are old and sick, causing the cost of insurance to rise over time and pushing ever more healthy young people out of the market.

Adrianna McIntyre says that we shouldn't worry; there's a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that deals with this: