The government is considering delaying penalties for an important cost-sharing program built into the ACA. This is another example of a troubling trend: delays mean we won’t know the full consequences of the ACA on anything like the timetable initially proposed.
The Senate’s third-ranking Democrat now thinks Democrats made a mistake in pushing Obamacare through when and how they did. But his reason is odd: that rising health care costs didn’t affect Americans.
A former Obama official claims Jonathan Gruber was the Obama Administration’s main health care adviser. If that’s anywhere near true, the Administration’s dismissal of the Gruber videos may damage public trust even further.
Small businesses are increasingly dropping health insurance for their employees, pushing those workers onto the public exchanges. That will increase the number of subsidies the federal government will issue, raising the cost of the law for the taxpayer.
The NYT is finally admitting that the main goal of the ACA—expanding access—won’t bring down the costs of our health care system. If only we had heard this four years ago.
ACA supporters say subsidies will blunt premium hikes for individuals. But shifting the burden around in this way does nothing to address our health care crisis.
A recent CBO report contained a troubling admission: It can no longer score the budget effects of the ACA. Whether by accident or by design, day by day we’re losing our ability to assess the effects of Obamacare.
Even after the last-minute surge in enrollment, only 26 percent of new health insurance enrollees say that they were previously uninsured. This falls far short of success.
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