Pig in a Poke Health Reform

From a political perspective, House Speaker Paul Ryan's trashing of ObamaCare (a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act or ACC) during CNN's recent town hall meeting probably was quite effective. One would, of course, not expect a staunch political opponent of ObamaCare to render a “fair and balanced” picture of the program, to plagiarize a Fox News mantra. Not surprisingly, the Speaker dwelt solely on some serious shortcomings of ObamaCare that are by now well known among the cognoscenti.