A Note on Carter Price’s: What Have We Learned About the ACA Over the Past Year?

The estimable Carter Price in his What have we learned about the ACA over the last year? has a nice set of links (http://www.rand.org/blog/2014/04/survey-estimates-net-gain-of-9-3-million-american-adults.html https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45231 http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/analysis-of-2015-premium-changes-in-the-affordable-care-acts-health-insurance-marketplaces/ http://kff.org/uninsured/fact-sheet/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/ http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/resources/primers/medicaidmap http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/today-aca-boosts-voluntary-part-time-employement http://www.nber.org/papers/w19220 http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/1/104.abstract http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/10/24/more-than-60000-arkansans-have-enrolled-in-the-private-option-for-medicaid-expansion) with commentary to assess how ObamaCare has done over its first implementation year.

I find myself, over and over again, how well ACA implementation is doing in the Blue States that have implemented it enthusiastically–I would have expected at least one more-serious state exchange blowup and something going wrong with costs and competition somewhere. But, instead, the only downward surprise has been the extent to which Red States have been able to nullify implementation–at, I must say, a remarkably large cost to their state economies and to the ability of their governors and legislatures to promote the general welfare…