So much for the Dem squeals and fatuous TV ads that without supersized Obamacare subsidies millions will lose insurance. With open enrollment closing on January 15, we have now preliminary numbers of where signups were as of January 3, and they were already the second-highest level ever only to last year, with two weeks still to go:

The bad news here is that the millions of likely fraudulent enrollees that were put on the rolls since the minimum payment was cut to zero during COVID are still there. CMS has a lot of work to do.

“Later this week, I’ll announce our healthcare affordability framework,” Trump said yesterday, promising to “reduce premiums for millions, lower drug prices, delivering price transparency, and demand honesty and accountability from insurance companies all over the country, all over the world, actually.”

That’s the winning approach.