Newsletter Articles | April 30, 2014
Obamacare: The Metrics In The News Are Mostly Wrong
A few weeks ago the Obama Administration reported that enrollment in the new insurance marketplaces topped four million through the end of February, then five million by mid- March, showing steady progress since the website woes of October. News organizations jumped on the numbers. Would they get to six million enrollees this year, a target many use for the law? If they do, do they have enough young adults to balance the risk pool? If they don’t, won’t premiums skyrocket? The scorecards were out.
Story after story followed essentially this pattern, which has now become the familiar metric . . .