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2013
Obamacare’s employer mandate delayed:
July 8, 2013 – As usual the doomsters are ignoring the facts. The delay will affect only a fraction of U.S. employers and even fewer…
100 days until ACA enrollment starts
June 22, 2013 – Sunday, June 23, marks 100 days until the first day that people will be able to enroll in an affordable health insurance plan through the…
Obamacare and the disability community
June 19, 2013 – Sam Bagenstos, one of the nation's leading experts on disability law, talks with Harold Pollack about the Americans with Disabilities Act…
“It’s not health insurance. It’s bankruptcy insurance.”
June 17, 2013 – I was approaching 60 years of age; I had exhausted my savings to pay for a private health insurance policy that was no longer financially…
Medicare fraud and for-profit hospitals
June 13, 2013 – Update: Sure enough, HMA CEO Gary Newsome has announced that he will be retiring July 1. Newsome, 55, said in a news release that he is…
Cost and coverage of the Affordable Care Act
June 4, 2013 – The video here is of my comments at the Center for Health Administration Studies' 50th Anniversary celebration. It covers why I am so proud…
Obamacare giveth. Employers taketh away?
May 31, 2013 – You gotta wonder how some people in the health insurance business sleep at night. Oh wait. You can’t sleep if you stay up late thinking…
Projections evidence ‘rate shock is a crock’
May 28, 2013 – Critics of Obamacare who warned us that health reform would result in "rate shock" haven't had much to say lately thanks to surprisingly…
Who will sell health insurance in the exchanges? Non-profit insurers.
May 25, 2013 – There won't be enough insurance offerings, the critics claim, to create competition in the marketplaces where small business owners and…
The ACA and mental health coverage
May 17, 2013 – Perhaps the most under-covered aspect of health reform is its dramatic expansion of coverage for the treatment of psychiatric and substance…
No shortage of insurance ‘flavors’ ahead
May 7, 2013 – Industry insider Wendell Potter says consumers shouldn't fall for headlines predicting that insurance carriers will offer few plan options…
Medicare Advantage – or DISAdvantage?
April 18, 2013 – Wendell Potter says he believes his mother is alive today because she was disenrolled from a Medicare Advantage plan that wouldn't have…