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Analysis: Obamacare Can't Fail

Sam Baker | Nextgov | January 6, 2014

The standard of success for the Affordable Care Act keeps getting weaker. Whether in enrollment numbers, federal savings, or the workings of its website, the White House has repeatedly lowered the bar for the law when it has missed expectations, replacing initial standards with ones that are lower, squishier, or nonexistent. Read More »

Coverage Expansion Fail: Less Than One-Third Of Obamacare Exchange Enrollees Were Previously Uninsured

Avik Roy | Forbes | January 18, 2014

At the end of the day, for all of the rhetoric and promises about what Obamacare would achieve, the health law’s most ardent supporters have stuck to their guns because of one thing: coverage expansion. But new data suggests that Obamacare may fail even to achieve this goal. Instead of expanding coverage to those without it, Obamacare is replacing the pre-existing market for private insurance. [...] Read More »

For HIX Success, First Fix Government IT And Set Expectations

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | January 20, 2014

Health insurance exchanges should strive for several goals to prove their mettle and recover their public perception, according to the founding director of the Massachusetts Health Connector, an exchange that was once a national model and is now struggling to function. Read More »

Health Chaos Ahead

David Brooks | New York Times | April 25, 2013

It was always going to be difficult to implement Obamacare, but even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected. Read More »

HealthCare.gov Can’t Handle Appeals Of Enrollment Errors

Amy Goldstein | Washington Post | February 2, 2014

Tens of thousands of people who discovered that HealthCare.gov made mistakes as they were signing up for a health plan are confronting a new roadblock: The government cannot yet fix the errors. Read More »

HealthCare.gov: Technology Failures Are Government Failures

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 22, 2013

Is HealthCare.gov synonymous with the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s landmark health care reform law? Or at least with the health insurance marketplaces that act introduced and that launched Oct. 1? Read More »

Insurance Policies Are Canceled In New Hurdle For Obamacare

Alex Nussbaum | SF Gate | October 29, 2013

The Obamacare rollout is leading to the cancellation of hundreds of thousands of health insurance plans nationwide, contradicting President Barack Obama’s repeated pledge that people who like their coverage can keep it. Read More »

Millennials Overwhelmingly Avoiding Obamacare

Patrick Christopher | BHM Healthcare Solutions | February 3, 2014

To date, less than 25 percent of all Obamacare enrollees are between the ages of 18 and 34. Why does this matter? To be financially viable, the still-faltering national healthcare plan needs America’s youth to start paying up. Now. If this doesn’t happen, the consequences for Obamacare could be dire. Read More »

Obamacare And The New Soviet Man

Wendy McElroy | The Daily Bell | November 14, 2013

Obamacare's failure to enlist young people into its ranks may well result in an American version of the New Soviet Man. That man was the communist ideal of a person who served the state and its leader with selfless devotion. Read More »

Single-Payer Prescription For What Ails Obamacare

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy Now! | October 10, 2013

“We apologize for the inconvenience. The Marketplace is currently undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance and will be back up Monday 10/7/3013.” You read it right, 3013. That was the message on the homepage of the New York state health insurance exchange website this past weekend. Read More »

Take Long View On Health Reform

Terry Schlemeier | Columbia Daily Tribune | December 15, 2013

Americans, especially the press, seem to be obsessive regarding the Affordable Care Act — or the sobriquet "Obamacare," as it has been dubbed. At first I was slightly disheartened by this, but, given further thought, it is only natural. For far too many years, we had no cohesive "system" for our health care, and now everyone, so it seems, is looking at a real system. Read More »

The Obamacare We Deserve

Michael Moore | New York Times | December 31, 2013

TODAY marks the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, for which two million Americans have signed up. Now that the individual mandate is officially here, let me begin with an admission: Obamacare is awful. Read More »

The United States Is Worse In Access, Affordability And Insurance Complexity

Cathy Schoen, Robin Osborn, David Squires, and Michelle M. Doty | Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) | November 13, 2013

The United States is in the midst of the most sweeping health insurance expansions and market reforms since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Our 2013 survey of the general population in eleven countries [...] found that US adults were significantly more likely than their counterparts in other countries to forgo care because of cost, to have difficulty paying for care even when insured, and to encounter time-consuming insurance complexity. Read More »

US Employers Slashing Worker Hours To Avoid Obamacare Insurance Mandate

Karen McVeigh | The Guardian | September 30, 2013

Trend sparks fears among low-paid workers that they will be hit twice: by having earnings cut and paying more for healthcare Read More »

Washington State To 8,000 Obamacare Enrollees: 'We Goofed On Cost Estimate'

Staff Writer | Government Health IT | November 12, 2013

About 8,000 Washington residents will soon receive letters informing them that the price they are expecting to pay for health insurance purchased on the new online exchange marketplace is incorrect. Read More »