Steven Greenhut: Health Care So Convoluted, Obamacare Supporters Are Running

Earlier this week Covered California — the
new Obamacare-inspired insurance exchange — issued some
controversial contracts. “California’s health insurance
exchange has awarded $184 million in contracts without the
competitive bidding and oversight that is standard practice across
state government, including deals that sent millions of dollars to
a firm whose employees have long-standing ties to the agencies
executive director,” reports the Associated Press. This looks
bad, writes Steven Greenhut, especially as Obamacare
supporters fight back an initiative (Proposition 45) on the
November ballot that would give the state’s insurance commissioner
the power to approve or reject health-care rate hikes — the same
power he has with most other types of insurance.

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