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Health Chaos Ahead
It was always going to be difficult to implement Obamacare, but even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected. Read More »
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Humana: Obamacare Exchange Enrollment 'More Adverse Than Previously Expected'
On January 9, health insurance bellwether Humana formally announced something that industry observers have long suspected: that healthy and young people don’t think Obamacare’s insurance plans are a good deal for them. [...] The question now is: will taxpayers have to pick up the bill for the Obama administration’s last-minute changes to the law? Read More »
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Insurance Industry Myths About the Uninsured
In 2007, a few months before I left the health insurance industry, I was tasked to write a “white paper” designed to help convince media folks and politicians that the problem of the uninsured wasn’t much of a problem after all. If demographic data was sliced just so, I was expected to write, it was easy to conclude that many of the uninsured — some 46 million at the time — were that way by choice.
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Living Sick And Dying Young In Rich America
Chronic illness is the new first-world problem. Read More »
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Millennials Overwhelmingly Avoiding Obamacare
To date, less than 25 percent of all Obamacare enrollees are between the ages of 18 and 34. Why does this matter? To be financially viable, the still-faltering national healthcare plan needs America’s youth to start paying up. Now. If this doesn’t happen, the consequences for Obamacare could be dire. Read More »
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New State Data On Obamacare Enrollment Trends Show How Scheme Is Failing
The White House obfuscates when it comes to Obamacare enrollment results. But some of the individual states that have established their own on-line exchanges (and sidestepped healthcare.gov) have been forthcoming... Read More »
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Yep, Being A Young, American Adult Is A Financial Nightmare
Poverty is an astonishingly common experience here in the world's richest country. As I wrote this morning, almost 40 percent of American adults experience it for at least a year by age 60. But you know who poverty is especially common among? Young adults. Read More »
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