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</html><description>ObamaCare's capricious lack of fairness is, I think, a subject readers are now familiar with. Clearly, a program as big as ObamaCare will help some people; my beef is that ObamaCare, by virtue of its system architecture, will not and cannot treat all people equally, as single payer Medicare for All would do. People will be sent to Happyville or to Pain City randomly, and not when buying flat-screen TVs, but when buying a complex product costing many thousands of dollars that may (or may not) prevent bankruptcy or save a life. Moreover, ObamaCare's system architecture, in consequence of Obama's decision to preserve and protect the rental streams extracted from the body politic by the private health insurance industry, is needlessly complex, resulting in requirements abandoned and deadlines slipped, as is normal when a bloatware software project goes out of control. It may be that Obama's public relations machine and career "progressive" enablers will be able to paper over these issues during ObamaCare's launch phase, but they will become increasingly evident to the general public forced to enter, mandated to enter, the ObamaCare "marketplace" (the Exchanges). Whether what the general public experiences matters to policy makers is another question, of course.   So this week I'd like to take a quick survey of major ObamaCare implementation issues: The state of the California exchanges, the Pruitt v. Sebelius case, and whether ObamaCare will "make projection" and sign up 7 million people.</description></oembed>

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