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Guaranteed issue -- the guarantee that one's health or medical history won't be factored into the cost of health insurance bought o...

It would be inaccurate to say that there are two main methods of controlling healthcare costs. But it's fair, I think, to say that the...

There is a paradox in the power the Affordable Care Act lends to states to devise alternative means to meet the law's goals. On the on...

Dear readers, I have another future-of-the-ACA interview in progress, to be posted tomorrow or Thursday. Hence the pause in posts. Meantime...

When it was announced last week that the Illinois ACA exchange will have 306 plans on offer next year, I wondered how much choice was too m...

HHS released statistics yesterday showing that "69 percent of enrollees who selected Marketplace plans with tax credits had premiums...

Raymond Scheppach, longtime director of the National Governors Association (1983-2011) and a former deputy CBO director, is an expert on ...

[n.b. see update in mid-post. I seem to have misread...] In October 2010, Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf led off a column with a h...

Hooray! Based on the first state reports , more health insurers will enter more ACA state exchanges in 2015 than in 2014. In Illinois, for ...

Beneath the furious passions aroused by the Affordable Care Act lurk broad areas of bipartisan consensus regarding healthcare reform in th...

I am a little surprised that two leading healthcare economists, Austin Frakt and Amitabh Chandra, write approvingly in The Upshot of this ...

"ICYMI" generally refers to something written a day or a week ago.  In recent days, I've had recourse several times to Micha...

Five days before his disappearance, Bowe Bergdahl poured out his disillusionment with the US effort in Afghanistan in a long email to his p...

Remember Obama's May 21 threat to veto the National Defense Authorization Act if restrictions on his authority to transfer Guantanamo...

Back in February, John McCain told Anderson Cooper he would support "some sort of exchange" for Bowe Bendahl -- at a time when i...

If you wonder why Obama cut Congress out of the endgame of his negotiation for Bowe Bergdahl, tune in to the late Michael Hastings' acc...

Political scientist Julia Azari, who has written a book about presidential rhetoric, suggests that Obama's rhetoric has so far failed ...

The main thesis of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is that the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few is su...

Back in December 2008, in an interview with Time's Richard Stengel, Obama set for himself what struck me as a "modest and ambiti...

Max Fisher's analysis of the foreign policy doctrine Obama laid out today at West Point includes a pretty serious misreading: Obama...