Overall, insurers on Obamacares exchanges are doing well, and almost all of them say they intend to participate next year -- as the Congressional Budget Office has suggested they would.
The president and Congress shouldnt feel obligated to sort out the future of U.S. health care in the space of a few months. But while they do, it's important to keep the existing system from weakening any further.
The Obama administrations unfinished payment-reform efforts are a far better way to lower costs. Theyre yet another important aspect of Obamacare that President-elect Trump should preserve.
President Obama is right to want to put more money in the pockets of lower-paid workers. Issuing another government regulation, however, is not the best way to get it there.