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As WSJ reports, last week's geopolitical chaos and distraction was ideal for a news dump, and the White House didn't disappoint: On no legal basis, all 4.5 million residents of the five U.S. territories were quietly released from ObamaCare. It seems the costs of healthcare soared in these five territories due to uneconomic mandates - which woul dhave been a disaster PR-wise for the administration and so, under cover of catastrophe, WSJ reports all of a sudden last week HHS discovered new powers after "a careful review of this situation and the relevant statutory language," that enabled them to 'selectively...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could quickly wipe out the commercial health insurance market in five U.S. territories. The two insurers that have been selling individual coverage in the U.S. Virgin Islands already have stopped selling new coverage because of PPACA fears, according to a subgroup at the Health Care Reform Regulatory Alternatives Working Group, an arm of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Regulators from jurisdictions that are skeptical about PPACA created the working group. The working group's territories subgroup says in a PPACA implementation paper draft that any PPACA implementation problems are much more serious in...