Expert analysis of health reform issues
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…
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…
Study: The doctor is more likely to see you now
January 21, 2015 – For reasons that baffle me, ACA made Medicaid's enhanced reimbursement temporary. It expired December 31. Fifteen states plan to use their…
Medicaid expansion for every state’s stocking?
December 20, 2014 – This is really a tragic situation where many, many low-income Americans are not eligible for financial help at all because they live in a…
Your employer is dropping health coverage. Yay?
December 19, 2014 – If your employer drops your company-sponsored health insurance and sends you to the exchanges for coverage, everybody could…
The Affordable Care Act’s ‘stealth subsidy’
December 3, 2014 – The Chicago Tribune devoted a whole feature to the plight of low-income buyers of high-deductible Bronze plans in Illinois without once…
HealthCare.gov puts focus on the bottom line
November 14, 2014 – The streamlining works. Entering as a single person, I was able to get to price quotes in under 30 seconds. That's very good news. A…
Over 7 million customers served
November 11, 2014 – Focusing on the fact that natural and expected attrition has reduced to around 7 million the number of individuals who have gained…
Making a mountain out of 7 million QHPs
November 8, 2014 – The uninsured slice has dropped by around 26 percent in just the first year of the exchanges/Medicaid expansion being operational. That's…
The ‘good old days’ before Obamacare
October 25, 2014 – We Americans have short-term memory when it comes to health care. Either that or far too many of us have bought – hook, line and sinker…
ACA critics play the ‘rating game’ but it isn’t working
October 22, 2014 – Last spring, when it was obvious that Obamacare was meeting its enrollment targets for the first year, opponents of the law needed some new…
Don’t let $418 million of FUD fool you
October 16, 2014 – I should have realized that those who are opposed to the law out of economic self-interest or for political reasons would continue to spend…