Commentary

Administration officials just unveiled an Orwellian new strategy for masking ObamaCare’s mounting costs — rebrand them as “savings.” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced that Medicare saved $466 million last year thanks to the Affordable Care Act’s “Accountable Care Organizations” — groups of doctors, hospitals, and other ...

Want proof that Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges are doomed? Just look at what the law’s former supporters say about them now. Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt, who in 2013 predicted that Obamacare would “flourish” over time, now warns that the exchanges have entered a “death spiral.” Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini called ...

One of Obamacare’s central pillars, the individual mandate, boils down to a crude ultimatum. Buy health insurance or pay the price — a tax penalty of the greater of $695 or 2.5 percent of income, to be exact. But what if it’s essentially impossible to buy health insurance — because ...

President Obama is scrambling to keep his signature health reform law intact. A slew of insurers — including industry giants Aetna and United Health — have elected to leave most of the exchanges they initially participated in after sustaining heavy losses over the last two years. President Obama has responded ...

Like a gambler who doesn’t know when to quit, Democrats are doubling down on their favorite losing bet — Obamacare. Hit by multimillion-dollar losses — UnitedHealthcare, for instance, expects to lose $850 million this year alone – insurers are pulling out of the exchanges. All but six of Obamacare’s 23 ...