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It's obvious by now that barring a sudden radical winnowing of the Republican field, the nomination is Trump's. Therefore.... Cru...

It's been terrifying enough to witness a large plurality of Republicans respond to Donald Trump's calls for mass deportations, a b...

Whenever I get sick, I think "what if this never ended?" I don't mean I'm afraid the particular illness will last -- but ...

At healthinsurance.org, I look back at a state-wide proposal to create what I've called an "all-public option" for the ACA -...

[Update: more on "BHP for all," with New York as model, on healthinsurance.org, here .] Hillary Clinton has updated her package...

The Times has an  exposé today, by Matthew Goldstein and Alexandra Peterson, of predatory investment firms that buy up foreclosed homes, m...

Yesterday, Covered California released some selected health insurers' sales data. The press release emphasized the fact that insurers...

Consider these two facts about current U.S. health insurance markets. First, as Bruce Japsen reports in Forbes: Though the nation’s he...

I've noted before that while the ACA works best for uninsured people with incomes under 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL),* that...

#HealthPolicyValentines came early this year! Since the ACA's open enrollment ended on January 31, it's a bit post-coital this year...

Very interesting little trial balloon-and-reaction reported in Haaretz (via Nathan Guttman Forward):  “Hillary Clinton has been a very ...

Obama just sent an email  to supporters announcing a speech to be delivered this afternoon. I imagine it will be a message "for"...

Last night, Twitter flared up in response to the latest Trump provocation. Taking up a cry of passion from an audience member, Trump had ca...

Ever since my teens, I've had a horror of American strip mall roads -- those endless routes lined with fast food joints, big box store...

Greg Dworkin, who does the Daily Kos Daily Pundit Roundup, was kind enough to storify a tweetstorm of mine beginning like this: 1. Ru...

[Update 2/11/16: CMS has made  a correction -- see below.] CMS's ACA enrollment snapshot for the final week of Open Enrollment 2016 ...

Volumes have been written about what drives Trump or explains his appeal, but I think I've got it pared down to a verb. Trump blam...

In the ACA marketplace, insurers whose core business has been Medicaid managed care, most notably Centene and Molina, have increasingly und...

In an Iowa post-mortem , Greg Sargent spoke to several top Democratic campaign operatives about how Bernie Sanders managed to fight Clinto...

Stimulated, like a lot of people, by Bernie Sanders' single-payer healthcare plan, I spent some effort this week speculating about how...