Expert analysis of health reform issues
Can states refuse to build exchanges?
May 30, 2012 – Tea Partiers celebrate reports that states aren't making progress toward establishing health insurance exchanges. Better-informed…
The waiting game: anticipating SCOTUS
May 25, 2012 – While America waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to make its decision about health reform, is the health care system standing still? Quite…
Despite reform, age rating still hits seniors
May 21, 2012 – Under reform legislation, insurers selling policies in the individual or small-group markets can charge older boomers up to three times…
Does your state protect Baby Boomers?
May 21, 2012 – Today, in most states, there are no caps on how much insurers can charge a 60-something forced to purchase his own…
How much is your health insurance?
May 11, 2012 – A disturbing survey reveals that most Californians – and likely most Americans – are unwilling to focus on the details of their health…
Health reform and ex-cons
May 9, 2012 – If I'm trying to sell health reform, the smiling waitress with two kids, the laid-off steel worker, and the 7th grader with cancer work…
In sickness and in health
April 30, 2012 – Mr. and Mrs. Romney might ponder why so many people whose lives have been altered by chronic disease and disability become passionate…
Health reform: a huge victory for women
April 28, 2012 – When they buy their own health insurance in the individual market, women must lay out an extra $1 billion a year, simply because they are…
Hate Obamacare? Rip up your rebate check.
April 26, 2012 – The timing is perfect for everyone who despises Obamacare to demonstrate loudly and clearly your total disgust for the health reform law.…
Using reform as excuse to attack Medicaid
April 18, 2012 – “Repeal and replace” efforts to kill health reform especially focus on repealing the Medicaid expansion that would extend coverage in…
Ryan plan: crushing blow to Medicare
April 15, 2012 – Robert Greenstein, President of the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities (CBPP) dubbed Ryan’s proposal “Robin Hood in reverse – on…
A family’s health insurance ‘rabbit hole’
April 5, 2012 – Two years from now, when the main pillars of health reform become operative, young families will be able to buy decent coverage through an…