Health-care access and affordability are important goals. But they will never be achieved with a single-payer system – and that isn’t bad news.

Not only is a state-based ObamaCare exchange not required by federal law, but it also contains many drawbacks for Illinois consumers and taxpayers.

According to a recent report, the Vermont health insurance exchange was breached late last year by a Romanian hacker. The criminal gained access to the exchange’s development server at least 15 times over the course of one month. This is not the first time the Vermont exchange system has been hacked, raising serious concerns about...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee wants answers. According to a June 3 letter from committee leaders to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, lawmakers are seeking details on how and why several state-run health care exchanges have failed. They want to know why the administration awarded more than $1 billion...