If you can remember those innocent days of mid-January, before Obamacare was a nefarious liberal plot to pay lazy people to sit around and do nothing, the big problem with Obamacare was the Obamacare Bailout. This referred to “risk corridors,” a previously obscure provision in the law to balance out actuarial risk among health insurers in the exchanges, which conservatives called a “bailout” despite the fact that 1) A bailout is a specific kind of ex-post, ad hoc subsidy for failing firms, not any program that subsidies any company; and 2) Risk corridors aren’t even predicted to be a subsidy of any kind.
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