Major Changes to U.S. Census Will Make It Nearly Impossible to Track How Obamacare Is Doing

The U.S. Census Bureau will change its annual survey to include a “total revision to health insurance questions,” essentially making it all but impossible to track Obamacare’s successes and failures in its next report, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Widely regarded as the most authoritative source on health insurance data in the country, the bureau’s shakeup was met by sharp criticism from analysts who hoped to follow Obamacare’s progress.

“I’m speechless. Completely inexcusable. The administration deserves all of the criticism it will get, and then some,” Bloomberg View’s Megan McArdle said in a tweet.

Vox senior editor Sarah Kliff added in a tweet of her own: “Getting worked up into an increasingly heated health nerd rage about the Census changes. We’re losing our best data source on Obamacare.”

Bureau officials said in an internal memo that the new survey questions are intended to “improve the accuracy” of the census, according to the Times.

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