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‘Justice for all’ must include healthcare photo

‘Justice for all’ must include healthcare

July 7, 2017 – If this country wants to have any control over the cost of healthcare coupled with positive health outcomes, it MUST seek ways to ensure…

Clawing back coverage from the poor photo

Clawing back coverage from the poor

July 5, 2017 – What argument could possibly convince critics of the Medicaid expansion that taking back health coverage from someone who earns $46 dollars…

High out-of-pocket costs are a feature, not a bug photo

High out-of-pocket costs are a feature, not a bug

June 29, 2017 – The high cost sharing in the BCRA is not a bug, it's a feature. The Republican bill could aptly be called the Cost Sharing Inflation…

What ‘ramming through’ a health bill looks like photo

What ‘ramming through’ a health bill looks like

June 23, 2017 – Is what Senate Republicans have done anything at all like what Senate Democrats did to pass the Senate version of the Affordable Care Act?…

The new plan to cut out the heart of Obamacare photo

The new plan to cut out the heart of Obamacare

April 14, 2017 – Community rating is the one thing that keeps insurance companies from gouging most of their customers. It's the thing that helps makes the…

Enrollment freeze: ‘the cold shoulder’ for neediest photo

Enrollment freeze: ‘the cold shoulder’ for neediest

February 22, 2017 – As a matter of political strategy, I understand why ACA's opponents might seek to divide Americans with disabilities from other Medicaid…

Obamacare is not ‘toast.’ photo

Obamacare is not ‘toast.’

January 20, 2017 – "The Affordable Care Act may be headed for destruction, but I'm betting not." – Harold…

Sadness. Gratitude. Cautious optimism. photo

Sadness. Gratitude. Cautious optimism.

January 20, 2017 – On this, the inauguration day of our 45th U.S. president, we will not mince words. We will not conceal our sadness as we bid fond farewell…

7 ways the GOP could blow up ACA’s gains (or not) photo

7 ways the GOP could blow up ACA’s gains (or not)

January 17, 2017 – How will Republicans' repeal-and-delay strategy play out? Here are some possible scenarios, listed worst-to-best from the point of view of…

High-risk pools were a last resort for a reason photo

High-risk pools were a last resort for a reason

January 13, 2017 – High-risk pools could be resurrected, and yes, they could potentially work. But they would require massive cash infusions from the federal…

Stay calm and resist repeal. photo

Stay calm and resist repeal.

January 12, 2017 – Supporters of the law who may fear a death blow was struck last night actually have plenty of time to channel their fear and nervous energy…

6 ways you can resist ‘insta-repeal’ of Obamacare photo

6 ways you can resist ‘insta-repeal’ of Obamacare

January 11, 2017 – What can you do to protect the ACA's hard-won benefits – 12 million people enrolled in health plans in the ACA marketplace, another 12…