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Friday, January 31, 2014

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
National Journal | Where Obamacare Is Succeeding… and Where It’s Falling Short
Two months before the close of the Obamacare open-enrollment period, exchanges in some states are picking up high portions of eligible members, according to new analysis by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. But elsewhere, the exchanges are flailing.
National Journal | HHS Reports $380M in Obamacare Savings
An Obamacare program designed to alter America's health care delivery system has saved hundreds of millions of dollars in health care expenditures, the Obama administration said Thursday.
CNN Money | Obamacare deadbeats: Some don't pay up
Around one in five people who picked health insurance policies on the state and federal exchanges last year haven't paid their first month's premiums, according to insurers polled by CNNMoney. These folks will likely see their policy selection canceled and they'll be left uninsured.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
CRS | Medicaid: An Overview
Medicaid is a means-tested entitlement program that in FY2012 financed the delivery of primary and acute medical services as well as long-term services and supports to an estimated 57 million people, and cost states and the federal government $431 billion.
CATO | The ACA: A Train Wreck and a Lie
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama repeated one of the biggest lies behind the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and it wasn’t that you could keep your health-care plan or your current doctor. In fact, most people don’t even know it’s a lie.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | Uninsured Americans' Hardening View of Obamacare
Two new public opinion polls show uninsured Americans—a group considered critical for Obamacare’s success—are hardening their views about the President’s health care law.