Medicaid is Obamacare’s biggest success...

... But neither side wants to talk about it

By Ezra Klein, WashPost, Updated: January 6 at 10:31 am

So far, Obamacare’s biggest success is the one that neither Democrats nor Republicans seem to want to talk about.

As of Jan. 1, more than 2 million people had signed up for insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces -- the vast majority of them in December. That’s less than the 3.3 million the administration had projected would sign up by the new year. But those projections didn’t foresee that HealthCare.gov would be an abject disaster in its first two months of life. The surge in December enrollments doesn’t make up for Obamacare’s catastrophic launch. But it shows HealthCare.gov is, at this point, working.

That’s an improvement, not a success.

Meanwhile, in October and November alone, more than 4 million people signed up for Medicaid coverage. This number may be millions higher when December’s totals are released.

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