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Health insurance industry has blood on its hands
February 15, 2017 – I don't know of any other country in the world that would allow insurers to treat their human being customers with such little regard. Yet…
Your carrier’s leaving the exchange. What now?
August 24, 2016 – If your carrier is exiting the exchange – or the entire individual market – you'll need to shop around for a new plan during open…
Aetna or no Aetna, the exchanges need help
August 17, 2016 – The below four strategies could help financially stabilize ACA marketplaces and to improve the human experience of those receiving coverage…
The Insurance Empire Strikes Back
August 2, 2016 – What the insurers are implying here is that if the Obamacare marketplace doesn't "stabilize" to their satisfaction (even though the…
No. Obamacare isn’t killing the insurance industry.
March 1, 2016 – As health carriers blame losses on Obamacare, their stocks gains continue to be 'yuge,' thanks to one great customer: Uncle…
Open enrollment’s ‘missing persons’
January 20, 2015 – Last spring I was shouting from the rooftops about off-exchange QHP enrollments at a time when most reporters (and especially ACA…
Small-screen coverage misses big picture
February 25, 2014 – One recent nationally televised news report offers a perfect illustration of media coverage that is giving viewers at best an incomplete…
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…
The elephant in the room
October 17, 2013 – "People like (Marsha) Blackburn are far more interested in making sure that the powerful special interests – the ones who have easy…
Excuse me. Could we lower our premiums?
September 12, 2013 – In just three weeks, Americans who don’t have employer-sponsored coverage will begin signing up to buy their own insurance in state…
Who will sell health insurance in the exchanges? Non-profit insurers.
May 25, 2013 – There won't be enough insurance offerings, the critics claim, to create competition in the marketplaces where small business owners and…
No shortage of insurance ‘flavors’ ahead
May 7, 2013 – Industry insider Wendell Potter says consumers shouldn't fall for headlines predicting that insurance carriers will offer few plan options…