The key here is the verb. It’s wrong to say someone “loses” health insurance if he opts out of it.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 13, 2017

This isn’t entirely wrong, but tough to argue that 52 million Americans prefer not to carry health insurance. https://t.co/ld2RoIay4y

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 13, 2017

It’s kind of like saying a homeless person opted out of housing.

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 13, 2017

@jpodhoretz For older people at 175% FPL, premiums shoot up by $12k, from $1700 to over $14k. For older people at 450% of FPL, goes down.

— (((Megan McArdle))) (@asymmetricinfo) March 13, 2017

@asymmetricinfo @jpodhoretz I think you misspelled ‘impossible’ as ‘hard’.

— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) March 14, 2017