This weekend it will have been three years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Despite some optimistic claims that its popularity would soar after its passage, public support for the law remains weak. The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll found 37 percent of Americans support the law while 40 percent oppose [...]

Something remarkable happened yesterday. Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) decided to endorse using the Affordable Care Act to expand Medicaid in his state. Though he did this only after getting the administration to provide a major concession regarding how the program would be run. This is an important policy development because it means roughly a [...]

Ben Smith has made a splash at Buzzfeed pointing out that the age-rating regulation in the ObamaCare bill will result in a subset of young people paying substantially more for health insurance. Since older people can only be charged three times as much as young people, some young people will see big rate increases next [...]

As part of his budget proposal Governor John Kasich (R) will support taking advantage of the Affordable Care Act to expand Medicaid in Ohio. This move comes as a bit of a surprise given that Kasich as been one of the biggest opponents of Obamacare, but in the end Kasich decided the expansion was too [...]

There biggest potential sticking point to passing a broad immigration reform law could be cost and the biggest possible driver of cost could be how immigration reform would interact with the Affordable Care Act. Currently a bipartisan group of senators seems to have reached an agreement on broad outline but it is easy to support [...]

After receiving a lot of blowback for calling Obamacare “fascism”, Whole Foods Markets CEO John Mackey tried to make a more nuanced criticism at the Huffington Post. His attempt though to compare the Affordable Care Act with the Swiss health care system only highlights his lack of understanding. From John Mackey: I believe that, if [...]

The most recent fiscal cliff deal ended up cutting $1.4 billion from the Affordable Care Act’s CO-OP program. For those that don’t remember the CO-OP was designed to be a lame replacement for the public option. It was meant to help consumer by creating alternatives to for-profit insurance companies. It provides loans to start health [...]

When it comes to properly judging a major piece of legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, it is important not just to examine what the law does, but also what else the law allows Congress and the President to do as a result. In this case, the passage of the ACA has made President [...]

If you thought the re-election of President Obama would dampen the Republican opposition to Obamacare you were mistaken. Not only are several Republican governors continuing to oppose the law in every way possible, but the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner is still actively rallying the base against it. Boehner just penned an op-ed [...]

Now that we have approached what should have been the deadline for states to say whether or not they plan to build state exchanges to comply with the Affordable Care Act, it is clear most of the Republican controlled states will not. The administration’s last minute decision to push back the deadline by another month [...]