Monday, October 26, 2015

Crocodile Tears Over the Failing Obamacare Co-Ops--The Canaries in the Obamacare Coal Mine

I can't believe what I've been hearing recently from Obamacare defenders over the failing Obamacare co-ops--the most recent count has eight of them going bust.

The biggest complaint seems to be that those mean Republicans forced these co-ops out of business because of a provision they included in the last budget.
Read my post at Forbes

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Flat Enrollment Estimates For 2016--Has the Obama Administration Given Up on Obamacare?

On Thursday, the Obama administration said they expect to have 10 million people enrolled on the Obamacare insurance exchanges in 2016. They further said they expect to sign-up only one in four of those still uninsured and eligible during the 2016 open enrollment scheduled to begin on November 1.

These are astonishing admissions.

In 2013 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the Obamacare insurance exchanges would enroll an average of 22 million people during 2016.

Given the original expectations how can we now not say this program is a terrible failure?

Read my post at Forbes

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Ohio Governor John Kasich's Medicaid Expansion: Successful Governance is Very Hard Work

Presidential candidate John Kasich (R-Ohio) has taken a lot of criticism on the campaign trail for expanding Medicaid under Obamacare. But if his Medicaid expansion isn’t an extraordinary example of successful conservative governance I don’t know what would be.

See My Post at Forbes