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The ‘Trump effect’ on your Obamacare coverage photo

The ‘Trump effect’ on your Obamacare coverage

November 12, 2016 – Donald Trump will be our next president. What exactly does that mean for your health insurance coverage and access to healthcare?…

Obamacare and its future under a new president photo

Obamacare and its future under a new president

November 4, 2016 – Paul Starr wonders whether the nation can ignore a 'drumbeat of cynicism' and deliver health reform gains under a new…

Paul Ryan pulls back the curtain photo

Paul Ryan pulls back the curtain

May 9, 2016 – Ryan’s outlandish proposal is wrong on the facts and ignores recent history. But it does give us a peek at what a Republican replacement…

Look who’s talking about healthcare policy photo

Look who’s talking about healthcare policy

February 26, 2016 – After months of lip service on healthcare, Republican presidential frontrunners unleash a barrage of recycled and nonsensical policy…

GOP candidates and the Faulty Five photo

GOP candidates and the Faulty Five

January 9, 2016 – President Obama vetoed Obamacare repeal legislation this week, but will happen if on January 20, 2017, the day the next president is…

Wriggling out of a post-King crisis photo

Wriggling out of a post-King crisis

May 18, 2015 – If a SCOTUS ruling for the plaintiffs deep-sixes subsidies, could Congressional Republicans manage a 'Houdini-like'…

Don’t let $418 million of FUD fool you photo

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…

‘Transcending Obamacare’ (Part 3 of 3) photo

‘Transcending Obamacare’ (Part 3 of 3)

September 10, 2014 – In our final interview segment, Avik Roy and Harold Pollack focus heavily on coverage for low-income Americans and how we should and could…

‘Transcending Obamacare’ (Part 2 of 3) photo

‘Transcending Obamacare’ (Part 2 of 3)

September 8, 2014 – In Part 2 of my Curbside Consult interview with Avik Roy, our discussion is focused largely on his proposal's goal of controlling health…

‘Transcending Obamacare’ photo

‘Transcending Obamacare’

September 6, 2014 – Given their differences, you might be surprised that Avik Roy and Harold had a civil conversation about Roy's new "universal exchange"…