Another complaint about the PricewaterhouseCoopers health reform study, this one by the New York Times complained:

In a particularly glaring omission, the industry report made no effort to factor in the effect of proposed subsidies that would help millions of people to buy their own insurance on those exchanges. The subsidies would help people earning less than four times the poverty level, or about $88,000 annually for a family of four.

The problem is subsidies will again separate people from the cost, like it does already in college tuition. I commented on this before, but just came across a story from last December that illustrates the problem.

Over all, the report found, published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007 while median family income rose 147 percent.

But that won’t happen with health insurance, right? Because the health insurance companies who sponsored the PwC report can be trusted more than those tuition-hiking universities and state-run hospitals.