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2015
A conversation with crowdfunder Luis Lang
May 16, 2015 – Below is a transcript of my phone conversation with Luis Lang, a Republican South Carolinian who established a GoFundMe appeal to help with…
Obamacare supporters’ compassionate response
May 13, 2015 – Luis Lang is not the only conservative who needs serious help. Millions of low-income, sick, or injured Americans are uninsured or going…
How red states propped up HealthCare.gov
March 31, 2015 – Red-state governors and legislatures that refused the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion were probably aiming to help the ACA die the…
Show Californians the money
March 24, 2015 – By acting like a for-profit insurer, Blue Shield is shortchanging the public of the social welfare benefits taxpayers have paid it to…
Justices Kennedy, Roberts are ‘votes in play’
March 4, 2015 – This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the lawsuit that claims that the Affordable Care Act only allows…
Anatomy of a true health insurance death spiral
March 4, 2015 – AHIP warned that eliminating the subsidies ... would quickly lead to the collapse of the individual health insurance market in those states…
Succeed or fail, challenge may push rates higher
March 3, 2015 – Because of all this uncertainty, insurers reportedly are thinking of pricing their policies higher for 2016 than they would if they knew…
Americans know how to shop (even for insurance)
February 27, 2015 – Evidence from the 2014-2015 open enrollment period provides evidence that most buyers are making rational decisions and finding coverage…
If SCOTUS nukes Obamacare, what happens next?
February 23, 2015 – A negotiation will, of course, take place if the Supreme Court drops the King bomb on the ACA. And Michael Leavitt, who sat in Sylvia…
Hating ‘Obama’ but loving the ‘Care’
February 12, 2015 – Republican governors and state legislators have fought like hell to have nothing to do with Obamacare. But in the end, not only has…
GOP’s plan for the future would take us backward
February 9, 2015 – What are these so-called "new" ideas? They are actually old ideas ... ones we have been hearing about for over a decade. They didn't work…
How subsidy-eligible enrollees got ‘false negatives’
February 2, 2015 – By now it's clear that many who are eligible either for subsidized private coverage or Medicaid under the ACA don't know that they're…