Obamacare’s Enrollment Numbers Mask a Grim Reality

President Bill Clinton famously predicted that “Obamacare” would
start getting popular the day after it was signed into law.
But even
thought the program reached its seven million-enrollment target
yesterday, Americans are not celebrating. In fact, support for the
program is at an all-time low.

Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia explains in a
piece on Al Jazeera’s opinion pages that this might be because
Americans’ experience with the program is not comporting with the
administration’s hype. The seven million figure sounds impressive,
but many of the folks included in it are insurance refugees whose
coverage Obamacare abolished, not the previously uninsured. These
folks are being forced to buy plans that cost more for benefits
they don’t want — while denying them the benefits they need.

“Obamacare promised to cut the ranks of the uninsured and offer
those already covered a better deal while bending the cost curve,
but such rosy predictionsare not panning out,” she notes.

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