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Jan 06 2016

Massachusetts has implemented reform after reform to supposedly lower health spending in the state while improving quality.  While most residents of the state now have insurance, the state continues to experience rapid health spending growth, the most recent sign of which is strong increases in health insurance premiums, with most rising in the high single digits, with the largest rises found among plans for small groups and individuals.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/01/03/health-care-costs-rising-faster/WUfquz4gBEjncURDm20b6L/story.html
Oct 28 2015

In a report indicating just how pathetic the controls in the reform law are for protecting Medicaid and the subsidy program from fraud, ten of ten fictitious people created by the Government Accounting Office were able to incorrectly obtain either Medicaid coverage or a public exchange subsidy.  Your tax dollars at work.

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-159T
Oct 22 2015

You may have noticed that there soon will be none of the health insurance cooperatives established (and taxpayer-funded) under the reform law, as every week brings news of closures of more of them.  Strangely, no boasting from the Administration about this latest indication of the great success of their health reform.

http://www.vaildaily.com/news/18720558-113/colorado-health-co-op-calling-it-quits
Sep 28 2015

Another one of the health plan co-ops created by the reform law bites the dust, as New York regulators close down Health Republic Insurance for insolvency.  How's that "these co-ops will provide inexpensive competition to the big guys" rationale working out?  And how should taxpayers feel as their tax dollars circle the drain when these co-ops don't repay their loans, which by the way totaled $265 million for Health Republic.

http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press/pr1509251.htm
Sep 23 2015

A Commonwealth Fund blog post suggests that increasing the differential between younger and older adults' premiums under the reform law would end up costing the government more in higher subsidies, but gives no alternative solution for the very unfair situation of charging relatively healthy young people excessive premiums to pay for older adults health care.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2015/sept/charging-older-adults-higher-premiums-could-cost-taxpayers
Aug 28 2015

The Wall Street Journal reports that regulators are granting most of the very large premium increases health plans requested for exchange policies; in another big win for health reform's promise to reduce premiums.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/insurers-win-big-health-rate-increases-1440628848
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