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essential health benefits
The end (of the wait for Obamacare) is near
July 12, 2013 – It’s a sour and angry time in Washington, D.C. Despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court found the Affordable Care Act to…
Obamacare giveth. Employers taketh away?
May 31, 2013 – You gotta wonder how some people in the health insurance business sleep at night. Oh wait. You can’t sleep if you stay up late thinking…
Can we spend less AND improve quality?
March 11, 2013 – Harold Pollack continues his series of interviews with health policy experts, talking this month with Michael Chernew, Professor of Health…
HHS gets specific: ACA’s essential benefits
February 22, 2013 – What's basic in health care is an issue of heated debate. Individuals and groups as diverse as cancer advocates, children's hospitals,…
Consumer protections in industry crosshairs
January 25, 2013 – If you're a 20- or 30-something and have health coverage, you're being targeted by insurance industry campaign to eliminate two important…
Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies:
December 13, 2012 – Beginning in 2014, millions of Americans will discover that they qualify for subsidies designed to help them purchase their own health…
Aurora tragedy shows value of health reform
July 31, 2012 – The tragic July 20 movie theater attack in Aurora, Colorado, serves a grim reminder of the importance of universal coverage for even young…
If individual mandate’s struck, what next?
June 18, 2012 – The goal of the mandate is to draw more healthy people into the insurance pool, so that the cost of care when we become sick can be spread…
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…
Health reform’s 10 essential benefits will help
December 21, 2011 – The fact that the Affordable Care Act defines ten mandatory categories of "essential benefits" provides a "floor" of coverage that can not…