Shikha Dalmia on Obamacare’s Enrollment Hype

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

Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia explains 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.

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