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health insurance marketplace
ACA marketplaces: The tide has turned
December 19, 2013 – "The people responsible for implementing the ACA have continued to concentrate on the task at hand, and their efforts are paying off.…
‘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…
Millions qualify for ‘free health insurance’
November 5, 2013 – If you're uninsured – or buy your insurance in the individual market – and live in one of seven states, chances are greater than 1 in 3…
Is the Media eager to declare ‘disaster?’
November 1, 2013 – Nineteen days into the five-month enrollment period, 500,000 Americans had filed applications to buy insurance, and more than half lived in…
Is Obamacare a ‘bonanza’ for carriers?
October 21, 2013 – “Wall Street is beginning to figure out that under Obamacare, for-profit insurers are not going to make out like bandits. Investors who…
Seeing red over ACA obstruction
October 19, 2013 – One of the great ironies of the implementation of the ACA is that the states where the law is most needed also tend to be the states…
The elephant in the room
October 17, 2013 – "People like (Marsha) Blackburn are far more interested in making sure that the powerful special interests – the ones who have easy…
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 state of the state marketplaces
October 9, 2013 – The high initial traffic numbers are indicative of a program that will be successful overall. Given the propensity to procrastinate when…
‘We’re all in this together.’
October 5, 2013 – ... there is no way around the fact that our coverage is going to be significantly more expensive once our plan renews in 2014. And yet we…
Obamacare and the bad-news bearers
September 26, 2013 – In the marketplaces where people who do not have access to employer-sponsored insurance will be purchasing their own coverage, rates will…
Will ‘the bros’ buy health insurance in 2014?
August 31, 2013 – What reform's opponent don't tell them is that under Obamacare, a 25-year-old waiter who lives in North Los Angeles and earns $17,200 a…