Obamacare: What About The Working Class And The Middle Class?

The administration issued a report yesterday that says individuals who selected plans in the federal health insurance exchanges have a post-...

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The Affordable Health Care Act's Launch On October 1St––So How Did It Go?

Unavoidably, that will be the big question come Tuesday. But there will be much more to it than that. A 180-Day Open Enrollment––Not a O...

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One Year Later: The Affordable Care Act's Launch On October 1, 2013––So How Did It Go?

Here unedited is what I posted on September 29, 2013 : The Affordable Health Care Act's Launch On October 1st––So How Did it Go? Un...

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Obamacare: The Uninsured Are Not Signing Up Because The Dogs Don't Like It

Here's my version of a classic corporate marketing story from the 1980s: A big dog food company decided to come out with the latest an...

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Survey Data And Market Reports Say The Uninsured Are Not Signing Up For Obamacare

In my last post, I asked, "But what if most of the uninsured literally don't buy Obamacare?" "Only 11% of consumers who...

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Kaiser Family Foundation Survey Finds Most People Who Bought Health Insurance On The Exchanges Are Happy With It And That 57% Were Previously Insured––No One Should Be Surprised On Either Count

Let's take a look at both of these headlines: Most People Are Happy But Kaiser only asked the people who bought health insurance on ...

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The One Thing That Could Save Obamacare––And The Obama Administration Needs To Do It In The Next Month

To properly price the exchange health insurance business going forward the carriers have to sharply increase the rates. A senior executive ...

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Extending The Obamacare Cancelled Policy Moratorium––One More Contortion In The Pretzel

The administration has confirmed that the individual policies that were supposed to be cancelled because of Obamacare can now remain in forc...

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Obamacare Observations From The Marketplace

A few observations from my travels and conversations in the marketplace: About half of the enrollments are coming from people who were pre...

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Headline: Exchanges Struggle To Enroll Consumers As Income Increases It's Because Of The Obamacare Dichotomy

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...

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Obamacare Rollout Week Seven: Better And Nowhere Near Good Enough

I can provide you with an Obamacare federal exchange rollout update from two decidedly different perspectives: The website is working much...

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Is Obamacare Unraveling?

Rumors have been circulating in the marketplace all week that the administration was thinking of extending the individual health insurance p...

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Mission Accomplished?––7.1 Million––Will The Obama Administration Come To Regret Today's Obamacare Enrollment Announcement?

Politics is about expectations. The Obama administration blew the doors off Obamacare's enrollment expectations this week and scored b...

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Let’S Not Let The Republicans Make The Obamacare Replacement Debate About The Congressional Budget Office—Fewer People Will Be Covered And Many Will See Big Cost Increases

If you carve a huge chunk of revenue out of Obamacare and shift more subsidies to the middle class it should not be a surprise that the low...

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The Obamacare Slippery Slope––What's Your Hardship?

As of this morning, here are the new rules. If you had a health insurance policy that was cancelled, you are now exempt from the individua...

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