Afternoon Must-Read: Jonathan Chait: Today’s Obamacare Non-Train-Wreck News

Jonathan Chait: Today’s Obamacare Non-Train-Wreck News: “One of the many, many, many predictions of Obamacare failure…

…made by conservatives is that insurance companies would systematically drop out of the exchanges. They made this prediction many, many, many, many, many times…. [But] insurance companies are joining the exchanges…. As Larry Levitt explains, this is a big deal for the success of the program…. I have made this point repeatedly, but it’s fundamental enough to bear repeating: The information environment surrounding Obamacare is fundamentally asymmetrical. The liberal policy wonks reporting on the program have made a good faith and highly successful effort to depict both the good and the bad news about the program in context. Conservatives, even the most wonkish ones, have engaged in a one-sided propaganda effort. If you get your news about Obamacare from conservative sources, you have heard an endless succession of horror predictions that, when not borne out, have gone uncorrected. The bottom line is that the program is doing what it was designed to do…”