xpostfactoid

I am shopping an article (update - it's up on SHRM.org) that looks at how small businesses that provide employees with health insuranc...

In my multi-stage exploration of the data on ACA private plan buyers' metal level selections, I have been pleasantly surprised to deter...

HHS and CMS yesterday announced a major expansion of efforts to move Medicare payments away from fee-for-service and toward so-called valu...

[Update, 1/23: The ACA provision discussed below, which directs the federal as well as state exchanges to report to the Treasury tax credit...

As a relative newbie to the wonderful world of U.S. health insurance, I have been troubled by the skimpy coverage of the lowest-tier bronze...

I am working on a reported piece that looks at how employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) is changing and how it compares to insurance offered ...

Here's how Matt O'Brien, the Washington Post/Wonkblog economics reporter, characterizes Obama's new tax proposals: The stat...

Maryland's ACA exchange was a disaster last year, so the state started over, creating a freely offered clone of the highly successful C...

Congressional Republicans, who have promised and failed to come up with a legislative alternative to the Affordable Care Act for five year...

When I was very little, I watched all or part of a movie on TV -- I think with a babysitter -- that I remember as a kind of combination wes...

Three charts may explain in part why the ACA is working as designed, improving life in America, and hurting Democrats politically. First,...

From Rhode Island comes fresh evidence that a very high percentage of lower-income private plan buyers nationwide who bought silver plans, ...

The healthcare Twittersphere was riveted yesterday by Robert Pear's spotlight on Harvard professors up in arms about comparatively mode...

The NYT's Robert Pear reports that Harvard profs are up in arms because a small deductible and copays have been added to the universit...

Remember the brouhaha late last summer over Obama's rapidly evolving language with respect to the aim of military action against the I...

Yesterday, I took a look at what induced David Elson, a 60 year-old advanced diabetic in Louisville, Kentucky earning $28,000 "in a go...

It's not quite an iron rule, but it's a fair bet: When a newspaper reports an Obamacare hardship tale, involving someone who's ...

A couple of days ago I wrote about three conservative ways to change the ACA that would arguably increase viable options for individuals, ...

The Affordable Care Act is by any rational assessment a conservative plan to expand access to healthcare -- relying in large part on priva...

Why was there such huge variation among states in the proportion of ACA private plan buyers in the first open season who bought bronze plan...