More Obamacare Unravelling

On Friday, I asked if Obamacare was unraveling. The Obama administration announced today that they are delaying the employer mandate again...

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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: 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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Gallup: The Number Of Those Uninsured Is Falling––Why All Of The Amazement?

Reading the many press reports about the new Gallup poll estimating the number of the uninsured I couldn't help be surprised by their su...

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Silly Republican Insurance Reform Ideas––Selling Insurance Across State Lines And Association Health Plans

There are news reports indicating Republicans will be proposing such longstanding health insurance reform ideas as selling insurance across...

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Republicans Considering Proposing High-Risk Pools––Health Insurance Ghettos

We are hearing that Republicans are considering proposing high-risk pools as part of an alternative health insurance reform tawaran to Obam...

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What Individual Mandate? It Is Looking More And More Like The Obama Administration Will Not Enforce The Individual Mandate

It looks to me the Obama administration will claim at least 6 million enrollments by the end of March. But that will mean 75% of subsidy e...

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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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Was Obamacare Worth It? How Many Of The Previously Uninsured Have Really Signed Up?

Health insurance reform was long overdue. But did it need to be done the way the architects of the Affordable Care Act did it? Obamacare w...

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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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Virginia Should Take The Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Money And So Should All Republican States

In a September 2012 post on this blog, I said that Republican governors should be expanding their Medicaid programs under Obamacare. I argue...

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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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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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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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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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Biggest Insurer Drops Caution, Embraces Obamacare

Kaiser Health News is out with that headline today reporting that UnitedHealthcare is expanding its Obamacare exchange presence planning to...

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Halbig Decision Puts Obamacare Back On The Front Burner And Will Give Republicans A Huge Political Headache

Today's 2-1 decision by the DC Court of Appeals striking down federal premium subsidies, in at least the 27 states that opted for the fe...

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Average California Obamacare Rate Increase Only 4%––Success!!!

The weighted average increase for plans being sold on the Obamacare California public exchange in 2015 will be 4% . So, that means Obamacare...

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The Next Chapter Of Obamacare

Welcome back from the summer. It's been pretty quiet lately on the Obamcare front. So quiet, that there has been a flurry of article...

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