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individual mandate
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…
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…
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…
Supreme Court has the power, but not the social authority, to kill health reform
March 30, 2012 – The Court might damage or destroy the centerpiece of the Obama presidency. This would be an abuse of judicial power. It would also hurt…
Why is SCOTUS hearing an ACA challenge?
March 28, 2012 – As Rachel Maddow observed last night: this case was "built up as the Super Bowl of American partisan politics." Thus, the Supreme Court was…
What we can learn from The Biggest Loser
January 12, 2012 – Dr. "H" Rob Huizenga of "The Biggest Loser" knows that education equals motivation for folks who need to change unhealthy behavior. The…
Book examines battles over health reform
January 5, 2012 – For anyone who wonders how the battle over health reform came to dominate so much of the nation's attention over the past few years – and…
What would Jesus do … for the uninsured?
September 15, 2011 – How did we get to this point ... where an audience at a Presidential debate feels comfortable laughing about the fate of a man who…
Should health reform be a carrot or a stick?
May 19, 2011 – Instead of mandating coverage on the front end, the states favor penalizing the uninsured on the back end – punishing those who…
Are high-risk insurance pools the answer?
January 3, 2011 – Some Republicans are promising that government funding will make the problematic high-risk pools a viable long-term answer to pre-existing…