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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third of a three-part series from health reporter Arlene Karidis. Karidis says the Affordable Care Act is already helping many of the people who need it most, but that for many more Americans the best of the reform legislation is yet to come. A central theme shouted by health reform [...]

We definitely appreciate the idea of high-risk insurance pools. We’ve been promoting the state pools for years, in fact, as a last resort for millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions who can’t get health insurance coverage anywhere else. But while we appreciate the idea of high-risk insurance pools, we know there are problems with implementation [...]

It’s hard to feel good about the way Congress finally passed those provisions into law. We’re as disheartened about the way Congress functions as we are about the nation’s health care system, and we feel that it’s definitely due for major reform. But the fact is that the nation has waited far too long for the free market to solve the system’s ills – and regardless of the process, the resulting legislation at least moved us forward.

There’s something about this huge debate on health care that’s been sorely lacking and … and that something is a  discussion of what health reform could mean to entrepreneurs. Remember the American Dream? Where you come up with a great product or service and then open your own business? You work harder, not smarter? The [...]

One of the most interesting reactions to the ongoing health reform debate has to be the public’s revulsion at the prospect of increased government control of the health care system. I understand concerns about additional financial burdens that come with new government programs … and concerns about adding to the nation’s deficit. I get that. [...]