Monday, November 28, 2016

Obamacare Repeal, Transition, and Replace: The Republicans Have a Tiger By the Tail

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I wouldn't be surprised to see Obamacare more fixed than replaced before this is over. I'm not sure Republicans have really come to ...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Will It Take a Crisis to Replace Obamacare?

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My interview this morning with Steve Inskeep on NPR's Morning Edition .  We discussed repeal and replace, Republican proposals for rep...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

It Isn't News That Trump Wants to Keep the Pre-Existing Condition Reforms----He Said So in February

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Far from a news scoop, Donald Trump first said that he would preserve consumer protections against health insurance pre-existing conditions ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

"Now What Do We Do?" Trumpcare?

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Of course, "Now what do we do," is the famous line from Robert Redford's character in The Candidate, stunned by his victory an...

Obamacare: Dead Law Walking!

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There is no doubt that Obamacare is dead. The only question is just exactly how Republicans will get rid of it. While Republicans have t...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

The Good and the Bad of Obamacare

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See my comments on CNBC today using this link. In this interview, I mentioned the information a broker in Naples Florida sent me regarding...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Will the Administration's Making Good on Billions of Dollars Due the Health Plans Solve Obamacare's Exchange Problems?

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Amy Goldstein at the Washington Post is out with a story reporting that the Obama administration is looking to use an obscure federal law t...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Detailed Obamacare Blue Cross Enrollment--About Half the Enrollment Doesn't Get a Subsidy!

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About half of those buying Obamacare compliant individual health plans do not receive a subsidy. I was struck by this comment coming fro...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Big Obamacare Rate Increases Don't Reflect What People Actually Pay––Wrong!

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How many people in the individual health insurance market don't get a subsidy to pay for their health insurance, or wouldn't be eli...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

"The Blues Have Deep Reserves and They'll Be Here Long After We're Gone"--Here's How It Really Works

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The denials about just how bad the Obmacare exchange situation is keep piling up. Maybe the most uniformed and naive was this comment in t...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Latest Proposals to Fix Obamacare Come Up Way Short--The Insurance Industry Trade Association Joins the List of Deniers

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In my last couple of posts, I have lamented the degree to which prominent Obamacare supporters have been denial about the trouble The Afford...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Obamacare on Life Support?

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My comments on CNBC today.

"Those Whining Obamacare Insurers"

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Affordable Care Act defenders need to understand that if we don't quickly move on to a robust conversation about how to fundamentally m...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Obamacare Is Failing. And There Is Only One Way To Fix It

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See my op-ed at CNBC And my earlier post on the steps necessary to make Obamacare viable
Thursday, August 4, 2016

According to Aetna We Have Two Kinds of Insurance Companies Under Obamacare: The "Less Worse Off" and the "Worse Worse Off"

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Surviving Co-Ops Sue Feds Over Inadequate Obamacare Reinsurance Payments While Aetna Complains the Payments Aren't Enough For Their Only...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Obamacare's 2017 California Rates to Increase an Average of 13% With the Biggest Players Going Up 17.2% and 19.9%

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After last year's 4% rate increase, California's Obamacare insurance exchange rates appear to be catching up to the rest of the coun...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Everything Will Be Fine As Soon As The Obamacare Market "Stabilizes"––Not

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North Carolina Family Plans Already Cost More Than $10,000 a Year With Rates Going Up By Double Digits for 2017 With one state after anot...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

New York's 2015, 2016 and 2017 Obamacare Rate Increases

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New York just announced the 2017 requested rate increases for individual health insurance. I thought the history of New York's increa...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Why Are Centene and Molina the Exception To Most Big Health Plan Losses On the Obamacare Exchanges?

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This paragraph in a recent AP story caught my eye: Two companies that report exchange success so far, Molina Healthcare Inc. and Centene ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

"Figures Don't Lie But Liars Figure": The Disingenuous Obama Administration's Report That Claims Obamacare's Average Premiums Rose by Only 8% in 2015

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The Obama administration is out with a report that the average 2015 Obamacare exchange premium increased by only 8% last year. As best I ...