We hear about this surge in Obamacare enrollments. The San Francisco Chronicle is even asserting that "the public embrace of the Affordable Care Act amounts to a stark rejection of administration and Republican policy." Maybe we can call it something like the revenge of the ACA. The editorial spends a lot of time bashing Trump, but it does not say anything about the economic state of the people signing up.  In other words, are these ACA policyholders going to pay their own premiums, or will they be subsidized in some fashion? We don't know, and the answer matters a lot. A week ago, the New York Times wrote another article about Obamacare.  It gave us a glimpse about the dilemma of the middle class, or the people who have to pay their own way.  This is how they described the state of the ACA: The situation here in Charlottesville is an extreme example of a pattern that can be seen in other places around...(Read Full Post)