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Harold Pollack
Is Obamacare bending the cost curve?
November 19, 2013 – "The new ways of trying to deliver healthcare, medical homes, ACOs, this alphabet soup of delivery system reform seems to make a difference…
A tale of 3 health reform launches
November 16, 2013 – "The usual pattern is people yell and scream, a bill gets passed and the partisanship doesn't totally go away, but it abates. On this one,…
‘The comeback of Obamacare’
November 13, 2013 – "It doesn't happen until January 1 ... No one gets their Medicaid until January 1. No one gets their exchange-based private insurance until…
Obamacare’s bad rap
November 12, 2013 – "'I'm very cynical about the media ...They're like squirrels. They follow whatever is flashy and new, and they're zippin' all over the…
The promise of health insurance exchanges
October 11, 2013 – “Even before ACA’s enactment, I felt that health insurance exchanges have the potential – this may be just a dream – to realize…
Health reform haters gone wild
October 10, 2013 – There's really something about the opposition – for the reasons you described and from the standpoint of sheer governance, the way in…
The dismal politics of Obamacare
October 9, 2013 – I think different Republicans hold a full range of motivations with respect to the health care law. Some oppose the Affordable Care Act out…
Re-envisioned reform: a ‘gigantic blunder’?
August 18, 2013 – Last week, eight prominent health policy analysts released a new health plan at the conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute.…
‘Going bare’: risky, irresponsible suggestion
August 3, 2013 – Conservative organizations are mounting a cynical campaign to undermine the Affordable Care Act by encouraging young healthy adults to "go…
30 economists: We need individual mandate
July 18, 2013 – Yesterday, a small group of health policy experts organized by David Cutler, Jon Gruber, and me wrote a simple letter to Congress laying…
Obamacare and the disability community
June 19, 2013 – Sam Bagenstos, one of the nation's leading experts on disability law, talks with Harold Pollack about the Americans with Disabilities Act…
The ACA and mental health coverage
May 17, 2013 – Perhaps the most under-covered aspect of health reform is its dramatic expansion of coverage for the treatment of psychiatric and substance…