Congress should end this abysmal ObamaCare failure

Imagine you hired a plumber to repair a leaky pipe and, after years of work, he not only failed to fix it but made the leak worse. You wouldn’t keep that guy on the job.

But that’s exactly what is happening in Washington, where taxpayers continue funding programs that don’t deliver results.

When a federal program fails to meet clearly defined objectives, common sense dictates that it should be terminated. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is one of those ineffective programs, which is why the Abolish CMMI Act, legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to stop wasting tax dollars on the agency, is so critical.

The Affordable Care Act, better knwn as ObamaCare, established this center in 2010 with a $10 billion-per-decade mandatory budget to create payment models for Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. It was supposed to reduce costs and improve care, but it has failed abysmally on both of its objectives.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that this program would save $2.8 billion between 2011 and 2020. It instead lost $5.4 billion and stands to lose another $1.3 billion between now and 2030.

Hope is not a plan for success after 15 years of failure.

Congress has eliminated several provisions of ObamaCare, including the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was supposed to reduce spending. Instead, the board became known as the “death panel,” because savings were to be derived from unelected bureaucrats rationing care to patients even if their providers decided it was medically necessary.

The Center for Medicare and........

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