Obamacare’s Tax-Subsidized Failure

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Here’s some bad news for the insur­ance indus­try: Unex­pect­ed­ly gen­er­ous cor­po­rate sub­si­dies didn’t save com­pa­nies sell­ing Oba­macare poli­cies from bleed­ing red ink.

The worse news: Those sub­si­dies are set to expire in 2017, mean­ing that insur­ers will have to make ends meet with­out bil­lions in hand­outs.  Read more at Nation­al Review Online.

You can also read the Mer­ca­tus Cen­ter study that Bri­an Blase, Ed Haislmaier and I wrote here.

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