Record Obamacare Enrollment Embarrassment Masquerades as Victory

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The Biden administration wasted billions of taxpayer dollars paying patients to sign up for low-quality, overpriced health plans.

They hardly deserve applause for this gross mismanagement of public funds.

Just under 24 million Americans have purchased health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges for 2025, marking yet another year of record-high enrollment.

As in previous years, the Biden administration was quick to declare this surge in sign-ups a victory for patients. “Every American should have access to quality, affordable health care,” said then-Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in response to the news. “[A]nd thanks to the ACA, they do.”

That claim doesn’t square with the evidence.

Read the op-ed here.

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