The second open enrollment period for the health insurance law kicked off this past weekend to relatively little fanfare. After its highly publicized first round of enrollment, the law isn’t commanding quite as much attention this time around. That’s partly because fewer people are expected to sign up in 2015. And it also may reflect the fact that the general atmosphere surrounding enrollment is different now.
3 charts shatter the biggest myths about Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act was intended to reign in the cost of health care, expand access and raise the insurance rate. Almost immediately, Obamacare critics whined and stomped their feet about everything from so-called death panels to the broken website.
Perhaps the biggest myth of all was the idea that health care would be rationed out and somehow become more expensive for everyone.
