The latest Bloomberg Businessweek explores the lack of interest in the new federal high-risk health insurance pool:

Government-funded health plans for high-risk patients, an early feature of the new health-care law, have attracted just 2 percent of expected users. The disappointing start has given Republicans, once champions of the plans, ammunition in their push to repeal President Barack Obama’s entire health-care overhaul passed last March. ?

Republicans say the disappointing enrollment is a reason to repeal reform. “If the main goal of passing a trillion-dollar bill was to help people with preexisting conditions, this is a striking statement about the law,” says Laena Fallon, a spokeswoman for Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House majority leader.

Joe Coletti has followed the high-risk health insurance pool issue closely. He discussed the topic in this weekend?s 400th edition of Carolina Journal Radio: