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Affordable Care Act
100 days until ACA enrollment starts
June 22, 2013 – Sunday, June 23, marks 100 days until the first day that people will be able to enroll in an affordable health insurance plan through the…
Obamacare and the disability community
June 19, 2013 – Sam Bagenstos, one of the nation's leading experts on disability law, talks with Harold Pollack about the Americans with Disabilities Act…
“It’s not health insurance. It’s bankruptcy insurance.”
June 17, 2013 – I was approaching 60 years of age; I had exhausted my savings to pay for a private health insurance policy that was no longer financially…
Cost and coverage of the Affordable Care Act
June 4, 2013 – The video here is of my comments at the Center for Health Administration Studies' 50th Anniversary celebration. It covers why I am so proud…
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…
Projections evidence ‘rate shock is a crock’
May 28, 2013 – Critics of Obamacare who warned us that health reform would result in "rate shock" haven't had much to say lately thanks to surprisingly…
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…
The ACA and mental health coverage
May 17, 2013 – Perhaps the most under-covered aspect of health reform is its dramatic expansion of coverage for the treatment of psychiatric and substance…
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…
26 million eligible for help paying premiums
April 18, 2013 – We at Families USA estimate that nearly 26 million Americans will be eligible for premium tax credits to help make health coverage…
A helping hand for Rep. Marsha Blackburn
March 28, 2013 – In fact, one of the real objectives of the “Time for Affordability” PR and advertising campaign the insurance industry is waging is to…
Title of Congressional hearing said it all:
March 19, 2013 – I was stunned when Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.), accused me of being disingenuous because I told the story of a Florida woman who might be…