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US Employers Slashing Worker Hours To Avoid Obamacare Insurance Mandate
Trend sparks fears among low-paid workers that they will be hit twice: by having earnings cut and paying more for healthcare Read More »
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US Hospitals Send Hundreds Of Immigrant Patients Back To Home Countries To Curb Cost Of Care
Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico. Read More »
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Vermont Moving Forward With Its Own Flavor of Health Reform
Vermont lawmakers are taking steps to move the state toward a publicly-financed insurance program and craft a state health exchange, which is required by the 2010 federal health law and which state officials hope to use as the groundwork for their eventual move to a unique single-payer system. Read More »
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Veterans Without VA Health Care Eligible For Medicaid Through Obamacare
When Daniel Cruz left the U.S. Marine Corps in August 2006, he became one of thousands of Illinois veterans without health insurance, despite being eligible for coverage through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »
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Washington State To 8,000 Obamacare Enrollees: 'We Goofed On Cost Estimate'
About 8,000 Washington residents will soon receive letters informing them that the price they are expecting to pay for health insurance purchased on the new online exchange marketplace is incorrect. Read More »
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We Paid Over $500 Million For The Obamacare Sites And All We Got Was This Lousy 404 [Updated]
It’s been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled, and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is challenged only by Congress. Read More »
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What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov
The first highly visible component of the Affordable Health Care Act launched this week, in the form of the healthcare.gov site. Theoretically, it allows citizens, who live in any of the states that have chosen not to implement their own portal, to get quotes and sign up for coverage. Read More »
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What Does Singapore Know About Selling Healthcare Products?
Buying health insurance in the U.S. is not yet as straightforward as other consumer purchases, but that is changing. Health systems in Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand are far ahead of us in offering consumer choice and addressing health disparities. Read More »
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What Happened At The White House Mental Health Conference?
There is a lot of interest about what the Obama administration had to say about the state of our mental healthcare system and perceptions of mental illness in the United States. Straight from the White House itself, I bring to you highlights of their press release on the Mental Health Conference... Read More »
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What Kind Of Problem Is The ACA Rollout For Liberalism?
“This massive IT launch sure came in on time, under budget, and without headaches” is a statement that nobody has ever said. But even controlling for that, Healthcare.gov looks to be having a disastrous launch. Read More »
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What The Healthcare.gov Debacle Teaches Us About How To Fix Government Software
A single change--making development open source--could have saved the new site and might change the outcome of future projects. Read More »
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What We Could Do With A Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure That Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers A Dime
[...] What has pushed the USPS into insolvency is an oppressive 2006 congressional mandate that it prefund healthcare for its workers 75 years into the future. No other entity, public or private, has the burden of funding multiple generations of employees who have not yet even been born. Read More »
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What Would Universal Healthcare Look Like In The U.S.?
David U. Himmelstein M.D. is a Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York at Hunter College and a Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed a medical residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard and practiced primary care internal medicine at the public hospital in Cambridge, MA for 28 years... Read More »
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When The Best Hospitals Are The Worst
Assume we successfully get health insurance for 32 million more Americans. Not a single person "falls through the cracks." [...] There's a quantifiable change in barometric pressure as the nation collectively sighs. The moment would be fleeting. Panic resumes when the newly insured try to get appointments to see doctors. Read More »
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Where’s The Outrage Over Our Failed Health Care System?
For the next few months we’ll be bombarded by messages from the Obama administration urging people, especially young, healthy people, to sign up for insurance provided under the Affordable Care Act. Without them, premiums for that insurance will soon climb to unaffordable levels. Read More »
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