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 House Republican Obamacare Replacement Plan: Mind Boggling

It won't work. Obamacare works for the poorest that have affordable health insurance because all of the program's subsidies tilt i...

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Senate Republican Obamacare Repeal And Replace Bill Dead––Good Riddance To An Awful Public Policy Proposal

The Senate Republican Obamacare "repeal and replace" legislation––just like the House version––was an awful bill. Individual healt...

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A Detailed Analysis Of The Republican Alternative To Obamacare

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

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The Republican Alternative To Obamacare––Their Aversion To Fixing It May Prove To Be A Political Mistake

The Republicans have an alternative to Obamacare and they may have given the Democrats a big political gift. The proposal was unveiled las...

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What Neither The Republicans Nor The Democrats Understand About Obamacare

The 2018 Elections Were Not About Obamacare--They Were About Health Insurance Security    The 2018 midterm elections weren't a tsun...

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

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

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Latest Proposals To Fix Obamacare Come Up Way Short--The Insurance Industry Trade Association Joins The List Of Deniers

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

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Strike Two––The Republican Obamacare Repeal And Replace Fiasco

Three strikes and you're out. On Monday, Senate Republicans approved proceeding to debate on "repealing and replacing" Obama...

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With The November Election Six Months Away Obamacare Is Up For Grabs

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans seemed surprised last week when representatives of the insurance industry reported that the...

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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

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

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The Cockroach Proposal––Selling Insurance Across State Lines

I call support for giving insurance companies the ability to sell insurance across state lines the cockroach proposal. As bad as it is, yo...

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The Obamacare Supreme Court Subsidy Challenge––Surprising Comments From Anthony Kennedy And Maybe A Way Out For John Roberts

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

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The Outlook For Stabilizing Obamacare In 2018 And The President Who Can't Shoot Straight

The Alexander-Murray bipartisan effort to stabilize the Obamacare individual insurance markets will not pass the Congress on its...

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Reports Of The Demise Of Obamacare Repeal And Replace Are Greatly Exaggerated

Many recent press reports have centered around the notion that Republicans are stuck in the mud trying to get their repeal and replace promi...

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