The Obama administration took credit for the slowdown in health care spending, even though it started a decade ago. Will they now accept blame for the reversal? What about increasingly narrow networks? Are they ready to admit this is not healthy competition? Or that Healthcare.gov still doesnt work? Or that health insurance coops a favorite idea on the left have been a financial disaster? And oops. Everything the government has been telling you about healthy living is wrong. Read on.

Healthcare spending on the rise again

From John Tozzi, BloombergBusiness:

Government data, shows health spending increasing by 5 percent last year, compared to 3.6 percent in 2013. If confirmed by the final tally, health-care spending during 2014 would mark the biggest jump since before the recession.

More on health insurance being ruined by Obamacare

Networks are getting narrower:

in spite of having insurance, a consumer involved in a car wreck and taken to a non-network hospital might receive additional bills, not just from the hospital, but from the radiologist who read his X-rays, the surgeon who repaired his broken leg and the laboratory that processed his blood tests.

For example, there were no in-network emergency room physicians or anesthesiologists in some of the hospitals participating in plans offered by three large insurers in Texas in 2013 and 2014, according to a survey of state data by the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a Texas advocacy group. Kaiser Health News

The back end of HealthCare.gov is still a mess

Subsidy payments arent automated, so the insurers get payments based on estimates. And adding information like a marriage or the birth of a child is a convoluted, multi-step process

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