Thursday, November 01, 2018

The Josef Mengele of ObamaCare Zeke Emanuel : The big secret about the Affordable Care Act - It’s working just fine

Zeke Emanuel takes to the pages of the Washington Post :
On Thursday, the Affordable Care Act health-insurance exchanges open for the sixth year. A well-kept secret about them is hiding in plain sight: Despite the Trump administration’s best sabotage efforts, the exchanges are succeeding. Indeed, by almost every metric, the exchanges are now stable and even thriving. Just days before an election in which health care is a top issue, this important point has been almost totally ignored.

First, enrollment is strong. During last year’s enrollment period, nearly 12 million Americans bought insurance on the exchanges, and more than 25 percent of them were first-time customers. This amounted to a 3 percent enrollment drop-off from the previous year, but considering the Trump administration’s concerted effort to disrupt enrollment, the slight dip demonstrates that the design of the exchanges is fundamentally sound.
The Josef Mengele of ObamaCare can't explain why the fascist style exchanges need to bailout health insurance companies....