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2016

A post-ACA subsidy that already exists photo

A post-ACA subsidy that already exists

December 23, 2016 – Is deductibility of health premiums a promising 'repeal' component? See how it works for over 4 million who already take the…

Benefit maximums: An end to ‘free lunch’? photo

Benefit maximums: An end to ‘free lunch’?

December 23, 2016 – Allowing insurers to impose benefit limits might help lower premiums, but would taxpayers, patients, and families be left holding the…

Obamacare for Trump’s base photo

Obamacare for Trump’s base

December 23, 2016 – The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has many challenges. I wish that it did more for people. It also does an incredible amount of good for…

Repealing the ACA would be the only true disaster photo

Repealing the ACA would be the only true disaster

December 16, 2016 – In sharing these stories, we hope that our policy makers will understand that the only true disaster is the one that awaits us if the ACA…

The sickest states are the poorest states photo

The sickest states are the poorest states

December 15, 2016 – The states most vulnerable to medical underwriting happen to be most in need of the Affordable Care Act's income-adjusted…

A (Tom) Price cut for subsidized health coverage photo

A (Tom) Price cut for subsidized health coverage

December 14, 2016 – As a standalone replacement for the ACA, Tom Price's plan would render coverage unaffordable for the vast majority of the 20-plus million…

Resistance to repeal will not be futile. photo

Resistance to repeal will not be futile.

December 12, 2016 – For now, the political challenge brings a bracing clarity: to implacably resist the rollback of ACA. One must defend millions of people who…

The health savings accounts Tom Price loves photo

The health savings accounts Tom Price loves

December 3, 2016 – To imagine that HSA-centric legislation is going to create a seismic shift in Americans' ability and willingness to save money is…

‘Please take away my health coverage.’ photo

‘Please take away my health coverage.’

November 30, 2016 – How many Americans voted for Donald Trump (and presumably the rest of the Republicans on the ticket), "thus ensuring that they've…

Replacing the ACA with something terrific photo

Replacing the ACA with something terrific

November 12, 2016 – If Trump were serious about offering "something beautiful" in place of the ACA, it might look very like a "BHP for all who need it" –…

The ‘Trump effect’ on your Obamacare coverage photo

The ‘Trump effect’ on your Obamacare coverage

November 12, 2016 – Donald Trump will be our next president. What exactly does that mean for your health insurance coverage and access to healthcare?…

Obamacare and its future under a new president photo

Obamacare and its future under a new president

November 4, 2016 – Paul Starr wonders whether the nation can ignore a 'drumbeat of cynicism' and deliver health reform gains under a new…