Expert analysis of health reform issues
What is in Obamacare for you?
December 14, 2013 – There's no shortage of resources to help you quickly bone up on Obamacare and, more importantly, find out what's in it for you. In fact,…
Identifying Obamacare’s victims
December 12, 2013 – Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times talks with Harold Pollack about his interviews with the subjects of two high-profile Obamacare…
Health reform: Be patient. It does work.
December 11, 2013 – What I do know is that I will never again face a $10,000 deductible. We gained $11,000 in deductible savings, a quality provider network,…
How the media gets social insurance wrong
December 10, 2013 – In Part 2 of my interview with Michael Hiltzik, Michael notes that there are parallels between the media's coverage of the rollout Social…
FDR’s New Deal and Obama’s newer deal
December 8, 2013 – My guest this week is Michael Hiltzik, a columnist with the Los Angeles Times and the author of The New Deal: A Modern History, now out in…
5 questions for real Obamacare reporters
December 6, 2013 – Insurance industry insider Wendell Potter says that reporters who take the time to ask five simple questions can avoid being duped when…
62 other reasons to say ‘ahhhh’
December 5, 2013 – This week, President Obama launched a campaign focusing the country's attention on the benefits of health reform. On Wednesday, he focused…
Dreading higher premiums?
December 4, 2013 – Even if you won't get an ACA premium subsidy, there a handful of strategies you can try to help make your health insurance coverage more…
An end to unaffordable out-of-pocket costs
December 2, 2013 – Armed with incomplete evidence, ACA's critics are claiming health reform will push out-of-pocket costs for insurance higher in the…
‘There will be some bugs …’
November 26, 2013 – 'There will be some bugs. People will emerge with some bug bites on them, but you know the health system before ACA was one in which 50…
Getting the scoop on Obamacare
November 22, 2013 – In Part 3, Joanne Kenen and Harold Pollack talk about how media’s been covering the rollout of Obamacare – and what reporters are…
ACA’s winners far outnumber its losers
November 20, 2013 – "OK, people with cancelled insurance policies have a grievance. So does the much larger group of uninsured people with serious diagnosed…