News
National Journal | Narrow-Network Health Plans Expected to Proliferate Under Obamacare
The health care industry has revived a variation on a widely derided product and proclaimed it a fresh, urgently needed innovation.
FOX Business | ObamaCare’s Mystery Number: Just How Many People Signed Up?
As the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance open enrollment period hits its one- week mark, the Obama Administration is remaining tight-lipped on just how many Americans signed up for coverage on state and federally-run exchanges.
CNN Money | Can I just sign up for Obamacare once I'm sick?
There are many assumptions about what the effects of Obamacare will be. This series aims to separate myths from realities and answer questions surrounding the Affordable Care Act.
Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | Obamacaid
ObamaCare's website appears to have been built by Mitt Romney's "Project Orca" digital team, and perhaps tens of people have managed to sign up so far. "Fully enrolled, I can't tell you. I don't know," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded Monday. But Democrats do have one lament about implementation: Some states are opting out of the Medicaid expansion.
Real Clear Markets | Obamacare's Financial Unraveling: Predictable, and Predicted
Advocates marketed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known colloquially as "Obamacare," to the American public as a way to "bend the cost curve" of soaring health care costs downward. But despite its supporters' hopes, the 2010 legislation was fiscally reckless, markedly increasing the government's already-unsustainable health spending commitments at a time of record deficits.
CATO | Obamacare’s Real Glitch
Opponents of Obamacare could perhaps be forgiven a bit of schadenfreude over the massive computer problems that accompanied the launch of the exchanges last week. Certainly, the system’s problems bore out the critics’ warnings that the program was far from ready.
Blogs
WSJ | Compare Health-Insurance Premiums in 34 States
New health-insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act went live on Oct. 1, and many people are wondering what they might pay for available plans.
