Ordinary Americans are a lot smarter than Professor Gruber thinks.
In Year Two, Obamacare Is Off to Another Bad Start
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems like an unending nightmare. Desperate for some good news, the White House is justly relieved and celebrating the fact that the government website is not plagued with last year’s disasters.
But other big challenges loom, including the administration of the law’s hideously complex insurance subsidy system, as well as coverage and cost problems.
Of course, more people do have insurance coverage in 2014 than in 2013. But good grief, at what a cost! The federal taxpayers have shelled out almost $5 billion to help facilitate the process of building the government exchanges–there should be some positive return for that level of spending. Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials recently admitted, for example, that it incorrectly added 380,000 dental plan enrollees to the 2014 coverage total, leaving 6.7 million exchange enrollees as of mid-October 2014. But what do we actually know about these enrollees’ previous insurance status?
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