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2013
Cancer trumps ideology in reform debate
September 29, 2013 – She is not a political pawn in the partisan battle. She is a mother of two young children, a wife, a friend, a working and breathing part…
Obamacare and the bad-news bearers
September 26, 2013 – In the marketplaces where people who do not have access to employer-sponsored insurance will be purchasing their own coverage, rates will…
Excuse me. Could we lower our premiums?
September 12, 2013 – In just three weeks, Americans who don’t have employer-sponsored coverage will begin signing up to buy their own insurance in state…
Will ‘the bros’ buy health insurance in 2014?
August 31, 2013 – What reform's opponent don't tell them is that under Obamacare, a 25-year-old waiter who lives in North Los Angeles and earns $17,200 a…
ACA benefits far outweigh tax-time burdens
August 23, 2013 – When we move to a system that requires insurers to send tax forms to insureds, it's unlikely to be any more complicated than the tax forms…
Re-envisioned reform: a ‘gigantic blunder’?
August 18, 2013 – Last week, eight prominent health policy analysts released a new health plan at the conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute.…
A fuss over subsidies for Congressional staff
August 7, 2013 – The decision to let Congressional staffers keep their federal subsidies to help buy coverage through the exchanges makes sense from a human…
‘Going bare’: risky, irresponsible suggestion
August 3, 2013 – Conservative organizations are mounting a cynical campaign to undermine the Affordable Care Act by encouraging young healthy adults to "go…
Lordy, Lordy. Obamacare Repeal Vote 40
August 2, 2013 – Folks, there's not a snowball's chance that the creatively named "Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013" will get anywhere close to…
30 economists: We need individual mandate
July 18, 2013 – Yesterday, a small group of health policy experts organized by David Cutler, Jon Gruber, and me wrote a simple letter to Congress laying…
The end (of the wait for Obamacare) is near
July 12, 2013 – It’s a sour and angry time in Washington, D.C. Despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court found the Affordable Care Act to…
‘Is this thing on?’
July 11, 2013 – The media's coverage of the implementation of the health care reform law has been so much like the way most reporters cover political…