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April, 2014
Health Wonk Review for April 24, 2014
April 25, 2014 – It's no secret that we're staunch supporters of the Affordable Care Act and the great gains it has delivered to millions of Americans who… Read more
Pre-Occupied with Medicaid expansion
April 23, 2014 – Moral Mondays focuses on concrete, politically actionable grievances. Punitive voter ID laws and states’ refusal to embrace the Medicaid… Read more
Fixing Obamacare’s broken window
April 17, 2014 – Spreading out open enrollment would allow carriers and exchanges to maintain level staffing throughout the year, and would result in better… Read more
The dental crisis that’s driving patients away
April 15, 2014 – When increasing numbers of Americans cross the Mexican border to see a dentist ... you know we've got a growing health care crisis on our… Read more
Exchanges: too big to succeed?
April 13, 2014 – This is the time for brainstorming, but how much are we willing to change? Could we revamp the whole process if it meant a more… Read more
Will there be an ‘exodus’ to the exchanges?
April 10, 2014 – Harold: Now, would you be happy or sad if there was this exodus to the exchanges? Jon: I think I’d probably be, depends if the exchanges… Read more
Can Obamacare work even better?
April 9, 2014 – I think the average American voter is actually a charitable person, a big-hearted person. I don't think it's that the voters in Florida… Read more
Reports of ACA demise: greatly exaggerated
April 8, 2014 – For this edition of Curbside Consult, I Skyped with Dr. Jonathan Gruber, who is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts… Read more
Obamacare: Irreplaceable, irrepealable
April 7, 2014 – If you support the Affordable Care Act, know that your work is not yet done. And if you don't like it, you'll have opportunities to vote… Read more