Ever notice that whenever Kathleen Sebelius heads to Capitol Hill, everything else we should be paying attention to gets lost in the noise? Or maybe it's just me.
Anyway, other stuff happened last week.
There were a couple of more PPACA delays (or extensions) that didn't get nearly as much press as all the others, adding further weight to my theory that if it's too complicated or takes more than a line or two to explain, the media won't give you the time of day. Case in point: the administration quietly announced a month-long extension of PPACA's high-risk insurance pool, originally slated to shut down at the end of the year. No word on how much more that'll cost, but no one cares, because leading with a high-risk insurance pool is like shouting "Underwriter" at a cocktail party. Crickets.
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