On the front page of today's New York Times Sunday Review, Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of the incomparable Paying Till it Hurts series on the dysfunctions of our price-gouging healthcare system, spotlights the limitations of ACA marketplace plans, starting with narrow networks. It's accurate and fair, acknowledging the good that the law has done. Nonetheless I have some caveats:
1. Rosenthal compares marketplace plans' narrow networks unfavorably with the more robust networks typically offered by employer-sponsored insurance:
1. Rosenthal compares marketplace plans' narrow networks unfavorably with the more robust networks typically offered by employer-sponsored insurance: