From the beginning, Obamacare’s largest expansion of coverage to the uninsured has come not through the form of subsidized insurance in the exchanges – a middle class entitlement – but through the expansion of Medicaid, the health program with outcomes which largely vary between the subpar and the terrible. Liberal supporters of the law argued vociferously that this expansion amounted to a lifesaving endeavor. Here’s a milder version of the claim, from Ezra Klein in 2009: “In reality, people don't like to talk about health-care reform in terms of lives because it seems, on some level, unfair. It sounds almost like an accusation of murder. That's common rhetoric when talking about wars but not social policy. But it isn't an accusation of murder. It's a statement of benefits.”   But is it a real statement of benefits? The data is in, and it says: no. Phil Klein reports: “During the health care debate, liberals argued that government had to a moral duty to enact legislation that...