Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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The Healthcare.gov Fiasco
It’s been a week since Healthcare.gov launched, and for anyone who has tried to register for new health insurance on the website, its online waiting room page is perhaps the most recognizable page on the site... Read More »
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The Hidden Costs Of Obamacare
It’s the hidden costs that will thin your wallet. Copays, deductibles, and coinsurance to be specific...
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The Hidden Marriage Penalty In Obamacare
Childless couples and empty nesters pay more. Much more. Read More »
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The Infinite Bewilderment Of Signing Up For Obamacare Subsidies
Having spent quite some time last week deep in the weeds of Obamacare, whacking my way through the burrs and brush of its extensive questionnaires with a story subject, I am here to tell you two things. First, it is confusing. Second, every little bit of misinformation and confusion matters. Read More »
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The Latest Mystery: What Is Happening To All Those Paper Applications?
Enrollments continue to trickle in. Health plans, with the kind of market share that would have to sign-up 100,000 to 200,000 people for the administration to hit its goal of 7 million people, are generally reporting they have enrolled only about 100 – 200 people over the first 35 days via Healthcare.gov. Read More »
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The Man Who Would Be King
As President Barack Obama once again announced his intention to bypass Congress and govern through executive order -- this time with Monday's announcement on immigration -- history will ask, is he being presidential or imperial?...
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The Medicare Data Dump: How The Government Gave Physicians The Finger
According to a study by Jackson Healthcare, the percentage rate of U.S. physician compensation is among the lowest of western nations...So it was with great pomp and circumstances, as well as consternation from various physician sources, that the government released data for all payments made by Medicare to physicians in the year 2012...
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The Obamacare Insurance Exchange Train Is Already Coming Off The Rails
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) raised eyebrows across the country last month when he publicly fretted about an Obamacare “train wreck” as the Administration rushes to implement the many provisions of the law that take effect in 2014. Read More »
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The Obamacare We Deserve
TODAY marks the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, for which two million Americans have signed up. Now that the individual mandate is officially here, let me begin with an admission: Obamacare is awful. Read More »
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The One Disheartening Number That Suggests Healthcare.gov Will Not Be Fixed Anytime Soon
We all know by now that healthcare.gov is an utter mess. The next question: How long will it take to fix? The New York Times this weekend had a pretty dispiriting answer... Read More »
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The Outlook For “Obamacare” In Two Maps
It wasn’t just President Barack Obama who won Tuesday. His signature health care plan did as well. But while the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains alive, less clear is how its various mandates will proceed and who will participate. Read More »
The Real Reasons Insurers Are Canceling Policies
Now that President Obama has said it's OK with him if insurance companies keep their policyholders in health plans that don't meet the standards established by the Affordable Care Act, at least for another year, the big question is whether insurers will take him up on the offer. Read More »
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The Republican Case For Waste In Health Care
Conservatives love to apply “cost-benefit analysis” to government programs—except in health care. In fact, working with drug companies and warning of “death panels,” they slipped language into Obamacare banning cost-effectiveness research. Here’s how that happened, and why it can’t stand. Read More »
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The Rise Of Medical Identity Theft
If modern technology has ushered in a plague of identity theft, one particular strain of the disease has emerged as most virulent: medical identity theft. Read More »
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The Sabotage Device Within Obamacare
Much of the March/April issue of the Washington Monthly is about conservative efforts to sabotage key first-term accomplishment of the Obama administration via the regulatory and other implementation processes. Read More »
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