Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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Obamacare's Slush Fund Fuels A Broader Lobbying Controversy

Stuart Taylor | Forbes | May 30, 2013

A little-noticed part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act channels some $12.5 billion into a vaguely defined “Prevention and Public Health Fund” over the next decade–and some of that money is going for everything from massage therapists who offer “calming techniques,” to groups advocating higher state and local taxes on tobacco and soda, and stricter zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants. Read More »

Obamacare, Failing Ahead Of Schedule

Ross Douthat | New York Times | October 19, 2013

THIS is not the column about the Obamacare rollout I expected to write. [... For now there is a more pressing subject: The online federal health care exchange, the heart of the Obamacare project, is such a rolling catastrophe that it may end up creating a major policy fiasco immediately rather than eventually. Read More »

Obamacare, Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation

Brian T. Horowitz | eWeek | May 29, 2013

Government regulations and open data initiatives inspire investment in platforms that support accountable care organizations. Read More »

Obamacare, The Constitution, And The Original Meaning Of The Commerce Clause

William J. Watkins | The Christian Science Monitor | December 21, 2010

Several lawsuits over the health-care reform's individual mandate hinge on interpretations of the constitution's Commerce Clause. This clause is widely believed to grant Congress broad power over national markets. But that isn't what the founders had in mind. Read More »

Obamacare: Scammers Seizing the Opportunity

Chronicle Staff | Houston Chronicle | July 15, 2013

Scammers apparently taking advantage of people’s confusion over the Affordable Care Act are calling to offer “Obamacare cards” and threatening to throw them in jail unless they buy insurance Read More »

Obamacare’s Open Source Project Lives On — Even After White House Kills It

Robert McMillan | Wired | October 22, 2013

Months before the ill fated launch of Healthcare.gov — the website built to give millions of Americans access to affordable health care — government officials were already describing it as something special. Read More »

Off the Charts: Technology shifts health record keeping from paper to digital

Anna Lamy | Hernando Today | October 6, 2011

Traditionally, hospitals and physician practices process their billing of services electronically, but maintain paper charts for their patients. Paper charts are gradually becoming a thing of the past. Electronic billing and medication prescribing were the initial steps to bringing this part of healthcare into the 21st century. Read More »

Officials Aren’t Counting The Growing Cost Of Online Obamacare Fraud

Aliya Sternstain | Nextgov | October 24, 2013

Don't ask the federal government how much money citizens are losing to Obamacare Internet scams. Tracking the dollars stolen through fake exchanges and other sites that prey on insurance applicants apparently is not under the administration's jurisdiction. Read More »

Ohio Dept. Of Insurance: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Health Premiums By 88 Percent

Avik Roy | Forbes | June 10, 2013

Democrats continue to try to dismiss the evidence that Obamacare will dramatically increase the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. [But...] Ohio Department of Insurance announced that, based on the rates submitted by insurers to date, the average individual-market health insurance premium in 2014 will come in around $420, “representing an increase of 88 percent”.... Read More »

One Year After SCOTUS, Health Law Is Even More Complex

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | July 1, 2013

It's been a year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of Affordable Care Act, and by now the law’s critics and opponents can probably rest assured that the individual mandate set no precedent for the federal government to require American citizens to eat broccoli. Read More »

Only Six People Managed To Enroll In Health Insurance On Healthcare.gov's First Day

Adrianne Jeffries | The Verge | November 1, 2013

Just six people were able to successfully enroll in health insurance through Healthcare.gov, the government's online marketplace, during the first 24 hours it was live. Just 242 people were able to enroll on the second day. Read More »

Open-Source Everything: The Moral of the Healthcare.gov Debacle

Paul Ford | Business Week | October 16, 2013

The U.S. federal government, led by the executive branch, should make all taxpayer-funded software development open-sourced by default. In the short run, this would help to prevent the recurrence of problems like those that plague healthcare.gov. Longer term, it will lead to better, more secure software and could allow the government to deliver a range of services more effectively. And it would enrich democracy to boot. Read More »

Opening The ‘Black Box’ Of Health Care Data

Kavita Patel and Domitilla Masi | Brookings | December 4, 2014

Recent efforts by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) provide clinicians, health plans and consumers with ready access to health data that was never before possible. In fact, CMS released millions and millions of lines of data that reveal important information regarding physician payments, prescribing patterns and geographic distribution of health care costs...

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Oregon's Health Care Website Is Worse Than Healthcare.gov

Sophie Novack | Nextgov.com | April 24, 2014

Oregon is set to become the first state to switch over to the federal Obamacare exchange. The state exchange, Cover Oregon, has been such a failure that moving to the once broken HealthCare.gov seems preferable to trying to salvage its system.