GLASSBORO, N.J., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Most Americans will have better and cheaper healthcare in 2014 than they have now, and few if any will have more expensive healthcare, a U.S. professor says.
Dr. Joel Rudin, a professor at the Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., says under the Affordable Care Act most Americans will have health insurance that is similar to his health insurance, but that won't happen until 2014.
"By then, the people who came up with this idea may have been voted out of office. If that happens it will be their own fault for failing to explain to the American people how much better and cheaper their health insurance will be," Rudin says in a statement. "My health insurance is already really good, and if I am ever dissatisfied with it then once a year I can switch over to another really good health insurance plan. Why is my health insurance so good? Is it because I earned it by committing a feat of bravery? No, it's because I and many others work for the state of New Jersey and it's worthwhile for health insurance companies to compete against each other for our business."
Healthcare reform will make it easier to recruit and retain workers for small businesses because they will have health insurance, backers say.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates healthcare reform will pay for itself and even generate a surplus for the government, Rudin said.
