Democrats are finally starting to admit ObamaCare has problems

Congress is planning a bipartisan effort to improve the Affordable Care Act.
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With insurers withdrawing from the health care exchanges, consumer choice on the decline, participation well below projections, and premium prices on the rise, to say that ObamaCare is at this point a markedly troubled program is hardly a partisan jab. In fact, even some congressional Democrats are starting to publicly agree.

Acknowledging significant problems with the current function of the insurance exchanges, several Democratic senators told The Hill they're seeking Republican help to reform ObamaCare come 2017. "There are things we can do and need to do to address restoring competition in these exchanges," said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), "and my hope is when we're through the elections and past the elections, we'll do those." Ideas on the table include adjusting sign-up rules and using taxpayer money to subsidize the heavy losses many participating insurers are forced to incur.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.