Yuval Levin on the CBO report:

Even if we accept the rosiest assumptions implicit in the bill and imagine that the program it envisions will basically not increase the deficit any more than President Obama’s budget is already slated to increase it, we are talking about using $800 billion to build a vast array of mandates, taxes, subsidies, regulations, and new government programs intended over time to replace the American health-insurance industry with an enormous new government entitlement, while doing little to control the basic problem of health-care costs, and most likely actually increasing the cost of health insurance premiums, and exacerbating the chief causes of rising health-care costs more generally (the lack of competitive pressure on prices in health care, and highly inefficient entitlement spending — which this bill would massively increase).

Stephen Spruiell looks to the states for examples of ways to combat some of the harmful measures in Obamacare:

The effect of these reforms at the state level is no longer a matter for debate: In each case, insurance premiums skyrocketed; healthy people stopped buying insurance; and insurance companies exited the market in droves. Each state government was forced to take corrective action. Yet, while three state governments possessed the good sense to repeal or weaken their guaranteed-issue and community-rating requirements, the other five papered over their failures with inadequate, short-term fixes.

Paul Howard warns against modeling our health-care system after Europe’s or Canada’s:

A glance at our wealthy competitors reveals not a benighted America ignoring the commonsense solution (i.e., single-payer health care) embraced by our “civilized” cousins, but rather very similar systems struggling to match limited resources to aging populations and rapidly advancing medical technologies.