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Of all the dysfunctions of the U.S. healthcare system, perhaps the most egregious (besides leaving tens of millions uninsured) is the ...

It's funny how a trend impinges on your consciousness: you think something is new, then it gradually dawns that it's been going on...

In late October, when Healthcare.gov first released plan prices for 2016, Jed Graham noted that Ambetter (parent company Centene) had ...

In pre-ACA times, many low income workers were enrolled in " mini-med " health plans that provided first-dollar coverage up to ve...

The Kaiser Family Foundation has published an in-depth  analysis of rate hikes and their actual likely effects on users in the 2016 federa...

Whatever else it offers, Twitter often serves up some remarkable juxtapositions. Last night, someone posted one more demonstration that ...

For some reason, in the past month or so I've found myself pushing back against, or at least qualifying, assertions about the ACA by pe...

An article by the New York Times' Robert Pear, spotlighting the plight of ACA marketplace customers who bought plans with sky-high ded...

Buying health insurance is hard, we're told. Forced to weigh premium against deductible and other out-of-pocket costs, people will make...

Tyler Cowen draws a rather odd conclusion from the spike this year in premiums for health plans sold in the nongroup market: The ACA is  no...

Back in February, I complained that Gallup had conflated the effects of a state expanding Medicaid with the effects of a state running its...

Two facts about the business of health insurance that must be obvious to practitioners and those who study the subject occurred to me recen...

People make poor decisions when buying health insurance. So demonstrates health economist Austin Frakt in a review of studies probing Amer...

I have more than once expressed frustration that HHS, when urging the uninsured to buy health plans in the ACA marketplace, emphasizes low...

I fear that more health plan buyers on Covered California are going to buy bronze plans, with their $6,000 deductibles, in 2016 than in 201...

Buying health insurance is hard, experts tell us. Even highly educated customers have trouble weighing monthly premium vs. deductibles and...

Charles Gaba has caught a couple of glaring errors in a Wall Street Journal editorial claiming that the ACA private plan marketplace is o...

Math test! Should you buy a health plan that costs $70 per month with a $5,000 deductible, or a plan that costs $90 per month with a $500 d...

Hillary Clinton is putting antitrust enforcement front and center as a tool to fight income inequality, fingering industry consolidation ...

The Kaiser Family Foundation's latest estimate  of the still-uninsured population in the U.S. includes about 4.8 million whose employer...