Americans have not been kind when it comes to evaluating the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare. During the awful rollout of the Health Care Exchange in fall 2013, those calling the program a failure were more than triple the percentage saying it was a success. But no more. CONT. Kathy […] Read more »
How the Public Views the ACA Now
It’s hard to argue that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 did not have a profound impact on the two most recent midterm elections. The legislation helped spawn the tea-party movement and give the Republican Party momentum, enabling the GOP to win majorities in the House in 2010 and in […] Read more »
Health Insurance Marketplace Exchange Enrollment Satisfaction Improves Significantly in Second Year
Satisfaction with the Health Insurance Marketplace exchange enrollment process among new enrollees has significantly increased from 2014, and health plans obtained through the Marketplace exchange generate levels of member satisfaction equal to or higher than plans not obtained through the Marketplace exchange, according to the J.D. Power 2015 Health Insurance […] Read more »
Obamacare, Hands Off My Medicare
A number of factors underpin the anti-redistributionist shift in public opinion that I wrote about last week. First, and perhaps most important, is the emergence of significant resistance to downward redistribution among the elderly, a major voting bloc. CONT. Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times Read more »
At Tax Time, No Public Backlash Over Obamacare’s Individual Mandate
Tax season has come and gone with no great outbreak of protest about the Affordable Care Act’s least popular provision: the individual mandate. … The muted reaction to the mandate also parallels almost exactly the reaction to a similar mandate in Massachusetts. Bay State residents accepted the mandate and did […] Read more »
Americans believe their health system is the world’s best, but they’re measuring it wrong
Americans like to think their health-care system is number one. But a 2014 report from the Commonwealth Fund compared it to 10 other developed nations and found it’s…number 11. America spends vastly more than any other nation but, uniquely, leaves tens of millions uninsured. Patient satisfaction is low and the […] Read more »