Expert analysis of health reform issues
‘Transcending Obamacare’ (Part 2 of 3)
September 8, 2014 – In Part 2 of my Curbside Consult interview with Avik Roy, our discussion is focused largely on his proposal's goal of controlling health…
‘Transcending Obamacare’
September 6, 2014 – Given their differences, you might be surprised that Avik Roy and Harold had a civil conversation about Roy's new "universal exchange"…
Looking beyond the botched ACA rollout
June 5, 2014 – "People have given up on the repeal. There are very few people who want Congress to take more votes on repealing the ACA. Some people…
Figuring out how to put ‘skin in the game’
June 4, 2014 – The studies indicate that people are very responsive to healthcare prices when they see them. If you raise people's price for meds, they…
Can we ‘do the right thing’ profitably?
June 3, 2014 – David Cutler was the author of a prescient and scathing 2010 analysis warning of the need for stronger management of information technology…
Dem ad slays Obamacare-hating Republican
May 25, 2014 – Of the nearly half a billion dollars that has been spent on political ads mentioning the Affordable Care Act since 2010, just a little more…
Obamacare: Just what the doctor ordered?
May 13, 2014 – In Part 2 of my conversation with Sabrina Corlette, we talk about whether the Affordable Care Act is improving the health care system. Will…
‘Bros’ on board – and other promising signs
May 11, 2014 – With 8 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare's exchanges – 28 percent of them young adults – the collapse of the Affordable Care Act…
‘Health insurance’ that is too good to be true
May 8, 2014 – "Among the plans available outside of open enrollment, there are less expensive options – that provide very little in the way of coverage…
Introducing a new ‘metal’ tier: Fool’s Gold?
May 6, 2014 – Does the health insurance industry really think that Americans are desperate for a return to policies with sky-high deductibles and scanty…
Could Obamacare save 24,000 lives a year?
May 5, 2014 – This back-of-the-envelope calculation implies that ACA will prevent something like 24,000 deaths every year. That’s almost the number of…
Pre-Occupied with Medicaid expansion
April 23, 2014 – Moral Mondays focuses on concrete, politically actionable grievances. Punitive voter ID laws and states’ refusal to embrace the Medicaid…