The information infrastructure required for reconciling coverage with his health plan, or providers, has not been constructed; more than 50% on the plans sold on healthcare.gov offer a very limited choice of providers; providers are reluctant to sign contracts with Obamacare plans, and when they do, reimbursement is being reduced.

Some people end up paying more for their insurance than others. It all depends on what services people want coverage for.

Uncle Sam will spend $2.6 trillion on Obamacare over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. What’s remarkable is how few people this will leave better off.

A death spiral happens when only the sickest beneficiaries get into an insurance pool, causing the cost of medical claims to rise, and in turn raising future premiums.

At least a half dozen state exchanges won't offer full online enrollment thanks to unresolved software problems.

The 340B program was meant to help about 90 hospitals buy drugs to treat the poor. Now 1,675 hospitals qualify.

Obamacare is pushing physicians into becoming hospital employees. The results aren't encouraging.

PPACA tries to engineer its own new constructs, while pursuing provisions that could crowd out entrepreneurs from developing their own ideas. We could end up with neither.

Gottlieb explains how a previously obscure government advisory panel now wields tremendous powers to decide which preventive health care services public and private insurance will cover.

Obamacare doesn’t call on government tribunals to euthanize seniors, as some fanciful critics claim, but the bill does kill off private-practice medicine.

Congress is not going to get the same service that other people do on the exchanges. Obamacare will seem to them to be working much better than it is.

Come January, when some number of Americans have bought insurance on the new health exchanges and are starting to use the services, you can expect another controversy to arise when many of them find out just how few doctors and hospitals they have access to.

The policy people handed out impossible orders to the technical staff; when the technical staff couldn’t deliver their impossibility, they decided that the problem was incompetence.

The Obamacare story is as much a political story, and a media story, as it is a policy story.

Turning the insurers into scapegoats, when he still needs their help to make this law work, was an act of desperation.

A lot of people with private health insurance are losing their policies. This was supposed to be not so bad because they could go onto the exchanges. Only now, there are no functioning exchanges.

Most of what seems to be on the table ranges from not helpful to actively unhelpful. Here are seven popular “solutions” that don’t solve anything and may make things worse.

If the system cannot reliably process 50 percent of its users on Nov. 1 then the administration should ask for a one-year delay of Obamacare’s various regulations, including the individual mandate. Congress, including Republicans, should be ready to give it to them, with no strings attached.