Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines––A Really Dumb Idea

Any candidate that suggests such a scheme only shows how unsophisticated he and his advisers are when it comes to understanding how the in...

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United Healthcare Leaving The Obamacare Exchanges Is Not The Point––What's Happening To The People Who Have No Choice But To Buy Their Health Insurance Under Obamacare Is

Comments in a recent blog post I took a look at what unsubsidized Obamacare costs consumers and what they get for it (in this case a family...

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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

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

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Why Are Centene And Molina The Exception To Most Big Health Plan Losses On The Obamacare Exchanges?

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

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

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

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

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...

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Obamacare's 2017 California Rates To Increase An Average Of 13% With The Biggest Players Going Up 17.2% And 19.9%

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

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According To Aetna We Have Two Kinds Of Insurance Companies Under Obamacare: The Less Worse Off And The Worse Worse Off

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

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

See my op-ed at CNBC And my earlier post on the steps necessary to make Obamacare viable

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Those Whining Obamacare Insurers

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

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Obamacare On Life Support?

My comments on CNBC today.

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

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...

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

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...

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Detailed Obamacare Blue Cross Enrollment--About Half The Enrollment Doesn't Get A Subsidy!

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

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Will The Administration's Making Good On Billions Of Dollars Due The Health Plans Solve Obamacare's Exchange Problems?

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...

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The Good And The Bad Of Obamacare

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

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Obamacare: Dead Law Walking!

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...

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Now What Do We Do? Trumpcare?

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

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It Isn't News That Trump Wants To Keep The Pre-Existing Condition Reforms----He Said So In February

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

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Will It Take A Crisis To Replace Obamacare?

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

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Obamacare Repeal, Transition, And Replace: The Republicans Have A Tiger By The Tail

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 ...

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Republicans Are Being Awfullly Naive About The Transition Period In Repeal And Replace

"To have an orderly ["Repeal and Replace"] transition, I think Republicans need to reimplement the risk corridors by February...

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Fixing Health Insurance Reform Is A Zero Sum Game: The Only Way Republicans Can Lower Costs Is To Provide Less Coverage––Wrong!

Don't Underestimate the Value of Rearranging the Deck Chairs Anna Wilde Mathews and Louise Radnofsky have a well-done story in yester...

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Repeal And Replace Obamacare: How Will All Of This Sort Itself Out?

Will the Republicans Follow Through on Their Promise to Repeal Obamacare? Yes. You have probably been reading press stories that bring in...

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Is The Trump Administration On Its Way To Its Own If You Like Your Health Plan You Can Keep It Fiasco?

On Friday night the administration issued an executive order giving Trump administration appointees enormous flexibility in modifying how t...

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How Republicans And Democrats Could Come To A Bipartisan Compromise Over Obamacare

It's not a question of whether or not Republicans and Democrats will come to a compromise over replacing Obamacare. The Republican att...

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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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Rethink 'Repeal And Replace'

This is an op-ed that I authored in USA Today––two years ago. Wouldn't change a word of it: Rethink 'repeal and replace': Co...

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Obamacare's Insurance Exchanges Are Self-Destructing––And That Is Why Obamacare Needs To Be Fixed In 2017

Obamacare was self-destructing the day before Donald Trump was elected, and the Republican victory, with their talk of "repeal and repl...

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