Expert analysis of health reform issues
Is Obamacare bending the cost curve?
November 19, 2013 – "The new ways of trying to deliver healthcare, medical homes, ACOs, this alphabet soup of delivery system reform seems to make a difference…
A tale of 3 health reform launches
November 16, 2013 – "The usual pattern is people yell and scream, a bill gets passed and the partisanship doesn't totally go away, but it abates. On this one,…
The exchange enrollment numbers are out
November 15, 2013 – When will we have enough enrollment data to make a definitive conclusion about the Affordable Care Act’s success? The easiest answer is…
Like your junk policy? You can keep it.
November 15, 2013 – Your insurer doesn’t have to cancel your policy just because it doesn’t cover the ten essential benefits. You’re not going to lose…
‘The comeback of Obamacare’
November 13, 2013 – "It doesn't happen until January 1 ... No one gets their Medicaid until January 1. No one gets their exchange-based private insurance until…
Obamacare’s bad rap
November 12, 2013 – "'I'm very cynical about the media ...They're like squirrels. They follow whatever is flashy and new, and they're zippin' all over the…
The facts about health plan cancellations
November 9, 2013 – In the past few weeks, many holders of individual health insurance policies have been receiving letters from their insurance company…
Millions qualify for ‘free health insurance’
November 5, 2013 – If you're uninsured – or buy your insurance in the individual market – and live in one of seven states, chances are greater than 1 in 3…
Is the Media eager to declare ‘disaster?’
November 1, 2013 – Nineteen days into the five-month enrollment period, 500,000 Americans had filed applications to buy insurance, and more than half lived in…
Red state pain won’t be limited to poor
October 30, 2013 – Not only will the states end up paying billions of dollars in uncompensated care for residents who remain uninsured, but private health…
Is Obamacare a ‘bonanza’ for carriers?
October 21, 2013 – “Wall Street is beginning to figure out that under Obamacare, for-profit insurers are not going to make out like bandits. Investors who…
Seeing red over ACA obstruction
October 19, 2013 – One of the great ironies of the implementation of the ACA is that the states where the law is most needed also tend to be the states…