Let’s Celebrate Medicaid’s Success
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Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- So far, Obamacare’s biggest successis the one that neither Democrats nor Republicans seem to wantto talk about.
As of Jan. 1, more than 2 million people had signed up forinsurance through the Affordable Care Act’s insurancemarketplaces -- the vast majority of them in December. That’sless than the 3.3 million the administration had projected wouldsign up by the new year. But those projections didn’t foreseethat HealthCare.gov would be an abject disaster in its first twomonths of life. The surge in December enrollments doesn’t makeup for Obamacare’s catastrophic launch. But it showsHealthCare.gov is, at this point, working.