WSJ Editorialists Do the Obamacare Reporting the Establishment Press Won´t

◼ A Friday evening editorial published in Saturday´s print edition directly refutes the Obama administration´s key Obamacare memes involving affordability, choice, and the nature of the once-free health insurance market - Tom Blumer/Newsbusters

the public is learning that ObamaCare's insurance costs more in return for worse coverage.

◼ ObamaCare's Plans Are Worse: How the Affordable Care Act raises prices and limits medical choices. - Wall. St. Journal EDITORIAL

...This political mugging is especially unfair to the people whose plans on the current individual market are being taken away. The majority of these consumers are self-employed or small-business owners. They're middle class, rarely affluent. They took responsibility for their care without government aid, and unlike people in the job-based system, they paid with after-tax dollars.

Now they're being punished for the crime of not subsidizing ObamaCare, even though the individual market was never as dysfunctional or high cost as liberals claim.....

The awful irony of this new ObamaCare health system is that all adults now enjoy mandated pediatric vision benefits, even if they don't have kids, but parents can't take their daughter to an expensive children's hospital if she gets really sick. Everybody gets "free" preventive checkups with no copays, but not treatment for a complex illness from specialists at an academic medical center.

If the old individual market was as bad as Mr. Obama said it was, then he shouldn't pretend it's a place worth going back to, even for a year's delay. His "fix" is necessary politically because ObamaCare's willful destruction of this alternative is the worst act of government mayhem since FDR's National Recovery Act. The Affordable Care Act's main achievement is turning out to be diminishing affordable care....