Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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No Room In Health Care for Users
The front page of this morning’s Wall Street Journal featured an important story about one of the most important trends in health care today: the rise of consumerism. For many years, most people had “first-dollar” coverage, where effectively they were paying for all their medical care with someone else’s credit card.
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No, Madam Secretary, Prices On Healthcare.gov Are Not A “Hypothetical Situation”
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, wins the award today for most creative political spin. During a congressional grilling about the failings of the federal e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov, the secretary now claims that insurance prices are merely “hypothetical situations.” Read More »
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Obama Reelection Doesn't Alter Complexity Of EHR Adoption
The reelection of President Barack Obama won’t change the intricate realities underway in the trenches as physicians and practices perform the difficult task of replacing paper with electronic health records (EHRs). Read More »
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Obama's Apology For A Tech Meltdown Is A Major Letdown
Back in June, the Atlantic wrote a gushing article about HealthCare.gov. The website was fast, clean, and built on the cheap. [...]. As most people now know, any good feelings around HealthCare.gov have evaporated. People trying to use the site to sign up for health care under the Affordable Care Act have met with an experience that even dial-up users circa 1995 would abhor... Read More »
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Obama: Technology Will Make Health Insurance Transparent
President Barack Obama signed an executive order in May that made all federal data freely accessible in a form that can be used by software developers, which has come to be known as “machine-readable format.” [...] Read More »
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ObamaCare A Bronze Trap For 1 In 4 Low-Income Insured
In gauging whether ObamaCare exchange policies make health care reasonably affordable, federal enrollment data have been little help. They've offered no clarity on a key metric: the type of policies that households with modest incomes are buying...
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Obamacare A Successful Failure
Is the Affordable Care Act a failure? For some of us, the answer is simple: If you voted for President Obama, it must be a success. If you voted against the president, it must be a failure...
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Obamacare And The New Soviet Man
Obamacare's failure to enlist young people into its ranks may well result in an American version of the New Soviet Man. That man was the communist ideal of a person who served the state and its leader with selfless devotion. Read More »
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Obamacare Causes Health Premiums To Nearly Double Among America's Young Adults
The true "affordability" of Obamacare has been called into question by a new study, which found that average premium costs across the board have skyrocketed from what they were before the unconstitutional tax dubbed "healthcare reform" became law in 2010...
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Obamacare Enrollment Company Fumbles Client Data
In a slipup to stoke Republicans' Obamacare security concerns, Enroll Alaska accidentally released email addresses of about 300 clients Monday afternoon. Read More »
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Obamacare Guarantees Higher Health Insurance Premiums -- $3,000+ Higher
President Obama will deliver a second inaugural address later this month. He’ll no doubt reflect on what he’s done during his first four years in office — and on his signature healthcare law in particular. Read More »
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ObamaCare spending to top contractors tops $1 billion
A surge in government spending in the six months before the ObamaCare [Affordable Care Act] exchanges went live pushed federal spending to top government contractors over the $1 billion Read More »
Obamacare Still Stumping Medical, Non-Medical Professionals
Two speakers at last week's Northstate Economic Forecast Conference followed the same path when it came to describing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. Read More »
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Obamacare Victory Spells More Work For Healthcare CIOs
First, a bit of transparency: I believe in universal health coverage and don't think the word "socialized," as in socialized medicine, is a four-letter word. How exactly the nation should roll out that universal coverage--without creating a bureaucratic nightmare or bankrupting the country--is beyond my expertise, but in principle it's the right direction. Read More »
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Obamacare Website Violates Licensing Agreement For Copyrighted Software
Healthcare.gov, the federal government's Obamacare website, has been under heavy criticism from friend and foe alike during its first two weeks of open enrollment. Repeated errors and delays have prevented many users from even establishing an account, and outside web designers have roundly panned the structure and coding of the site as amateurish and sloppy... Read More »
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