New at Reason: Peter Suderman on ObamaCare's First Month

May 14, 2010

A little more than a month after the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama's trillion-dollar overhaul of the nation's health care system, the administration has already begun to tout its successes. On his weekly radio address, the President argued that it was already providing Americans with "real benefits," while Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a four-page memo laying out the "significant progress" she claims her department has already made in implementing the law. "Over the coming weeks, our team across government will continue to work diligently to produce the regulations and guidance necessary to implement this landmark new law," she concludes.

The prospect of adding new regulations to the books may be what passes for excitement in Washington these days, but it's hardly a ringing endorsement. As Associate Editor Peter Suderman writes, ObamaCare might qualify as victory for Washington's army of bureaucrats and rulemakers, but for the rest of us, there isn't much to cheer.

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