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Affordable Care Act
Can states refuse to build exchanges?
May 30, 2012 – Tea Partiers celebrate reports that states aren't making progress toward establishing health insurance exchanges. Better-informed…
The waiting game: anticipating SCOTUS
May 25, 2012 – While America waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to make its decision about health reform, is the health care system standing still? Quite…
Despite reform, age rating still hits seniors
May 21, 2012 – Under reform legislation, insurers selling policies in the individual or small-group markets can charge older boomers up to three times…
In sickness and in health
April 30, 2012 – Mr. and Mrs. Romney might ponder why so many people whose lives have been altered by chronic disease and disability become passionate…
Supreme Court has the power, but not the social authority, to kill health reform
March 30, 2012 – The Court might damage or destroy the centerpiece of the Obama presidency. This would be an abuse of judicial power. It would also hurt…
Will SCOTUS strike down health reform?
March 26, 2012 – I cannot believe for a minute that this Court wants to go down in history as the Gang of Nine that quashed the most important piece of…
Lifetime limits a big (million-dollar) deal
March 6, 2012 – The costs of removing lifetime caps on health insurance coverage are expected to be modest for insurance carriers. The impact for insured…
Health care cost increase lowest in 50 years
February 13, 2012 – While critics have been wailing about the impact of reform on health care costs, health care costs have been moderating and in some cases…
Young adult coverage saves us all money
December 16, 2011 – Ensuring young adults are covered now saves us all money down the line and gives parents and their kids the peace of mind that they'll have…