Monday, July 27, 2015

Health Insurer Merger Mania -- Muscle-Bound Competitors And A New Cold War In Health Care

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It is doubtful that the dramatically escalating consolidation in both the health insurance industry and among hospitals and doctors will mak...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

California Senate Votes To Open Up Obamacare To 2.5 Million Illegal Residents

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King V. Burwell Opponents Said Killing Subsidies Would Blow Up Obamacare­­––Now They Want To Open Up Unsubsidized Care To Illegal Californ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Could Humana Grovel Any More To Get the Aetna-Humana Merger Approved By the Obama Administration?

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See my post at Forbes
Monday, June 29, 2015

Why The Affordable Care Act Isn't 'Here to Stay'­­­­--In One Picture

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Why is Obamacare still so unpopular? Why aren’t the working class and middle-class signing up for it? Why is the Obamacare population sicke...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

The King V. Burwell Decision

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First, as any of us who know the market can appreciate, the Court just saved the Republicans from themselves. They were in no way ready to a...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

The Republican Proposals to Extend the Obamacare Subsidies If the Supreme Court Ends Them Would Create a Huge Market Mess

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While both the House and Senate plans would create a means for people to continue to be covered in the wake of any Supreme Court finding th...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Why Are the Proposed 2016 Obamacare Rate Increases So Large?

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Why The Big Obamacare Rate Increases Have Begun a Year Early? One state after another is reporting big Obamacare rate increases––partic...
Monday, June 1, 2015

The Eye Popping 2016 Obamacare Rate Increases Are Out

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The Big Rate Increases Are Coming a Year Early The Obama administration has posted the 2016 rate increases in excess of 10% that the Obam...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

The Columbia Journalism Review: "Why We Need Stronger Coverage of Covered California"

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The California Press Gets a Critique It Has Long Deserved Covered California, the Obamacare state-run health insurance exchange, has long...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Republicans Would Extend Obamacare Subsidies If the Supreme Court Strikes Down State Exchange Payments––But With Lots of Conditions

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The Republicans should offer an unconditional subsidy extension if the Supreme Court strikes them down Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

$1 billion in Federal Tax Dollars and a One Star Rating on Yelp––Quite an Expose––Behind the Scenes at Covered California

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California's Obamacare Insurance Exchange Posts Poor Results and is the Subject of an Expose What a difference a year makes. Last y...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's Medicaid Policy––and Now His Position Not to Save Insurance Subsidies if the Supreme Court Strikes Them Down––Says a Lot About How He Would Govern as President

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Speaking to a conservative group in Wisconsin this week, presumptive presidential candidate Scott Walker said he would not move to establis...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Headline: "Exchanges Struggle to Enroll Consumers As Income Increases" It's Because of the Obamacare Dichotomy

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Here is an excerpt from a post on this blog from June 21, 2014: Kaiser Family Foundation Survey Finds Most People Who Bought Health Insur...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The New York Times: Has Obamacare Enrollment Stalled?

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Readers of this blog know that I have made a number of points about Obamacare in recent months: The number of people signing up for Obamac...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

The Obamacare Supreme Court Subsidy Challenge––Surprising Comments From Anthony Kennedy and Maybe a Way Out for John Roberts

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in the King v. Burwell case that would throw out the Obamacare subsidies for millions of p...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Republicans: "We Have a Plan For Fixing Health Care" If the Supreme Court Eliminates Subsidies in as Many as 37 States––It Won't Be So Simple

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Key Senate Republican committee chairman Orrin Hatch (UT), John Barrasso (WY), and Lamar Alexander (TN) have an op-ed in the Washington Pos...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Obamacare is "Working a Little Better Than We Expected"––Judge for Yourself

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Here is what President Obama said in a recent video, "The Affordable Care Act is working. It's working a little better than we exp...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

A Detailed Analysis of the Republican Alternative to Obamacare

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House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton along with Senate Finance Chairman Orin Hatch and Senator Richard Burr have outlined what is, ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Rethink "Repeal and Replace" and Consumer Friendly Obamacare Fixes - Two Op-Eds in USA Today

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I have no doubt Republicans will insist on proposing their own complex plan to reform the health insurance system that will include repealin...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Will Tax Season Be Obamacare's Next Big Challenge? Is There Really an Individual Mandate?

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Will tax-filing season be the next reason for consumers to complain about the new health law? Come tax time, will the Obama administration r...