Sarah Kliff
Former Senior Correspondent
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“It’s extremely painful,” a prominent tear gas researcher says. “Your face starts burning very quickly and your eyes you start tearing. The eyelids shut and you can’t do much.”
”I am asking each of you to schedule a staff meeting to ask for suggestions to strengthen this culture of increased transparency, Burwell wrote in a Sunday night email.
Cost-sharing subsidies essentially cap how much Obamacare enrollees have to pay for co-payments, co-insurance, and other forms of cost-sharing.
This has been a month where (depending on your viewpoint) sloppy mistakes or flat-out lies overshadowed the smooth start of a second open enrollment period.
Without counting dental plans, Obamacare would have missed its goal
“In the thousands of hours we spent debating this law and drafting it and sitting in meetings, I never heard anyone suggest that subsidies would be denied,” says one former Obama staffer.
“Having a canine subject in a national news event produced coverage of a story that was 80 percent as large as the effect of the difference between being NYT front-page and back-page worthy.”
It costs, on average, $10,002 to have a normal delivery in the United States and more than $17,000 for a C-section. That’s more than any other country.
The decline has been slightly faster than the drop among the general population, where the uninsured rate fell by by about a quarter.
The eight or so hours that Obamacare’s open enrollment has existed so far this year, something stands out to me: Healthcare.gov seems to be working.