Morning Must-Read: Jonathan Chait: 4 New Studies: Obamacare Working Incredibly Well
4 New Studies: Obamacare Working Incredibly Well:
“Four major new sources of information have come out this week…
…all of which have further demonstrated the law’s success. 1. Increasing access to the uninsured…. Conservatives widely denied that the law would even succeed at its basic goal of increasing access to health insurance. Obamacare ‘created more uninsured people than it gave insurance to. And it promises to create even more,’ argued National Review’s Jonah Goldberg. Fox News panelist Charles Krauthammer proclaimed the law would result in ‘essentially the same number of uninsured.’… 2. Reducing overall health-care costs…. 3. Hospital errors…. 4. Insurance competition. Obamacare is based on an old Republican plan, developed by the Heritage Foundation and first tried by Mitt Romney, whose central feature was market competition…. Liberals did not place much faith in this dynamic…. But the dynamic has turned out to work much better than expected…