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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Managed Medicaid for all? A compendium

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In an illuminating string about what she's learned from ACA enrollees, Sarah Kliff highlights a point that's come sharply into fo...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

"Not losing, choosing"? - Avik Roy turns up the gaslight on the BCRA

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Two weeks ago, I took on the argument of various BCRA proponents that most of the 22 million people forecast by CBO to lose insurance cove...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Go ahead, Trump, cut off CSR payments -- starting in 2018

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Imagine for a moment that Republicans fail to pass legislation repealing the ACA -- leaving the ACA marketplace intact as a matter of law, ...
Monday, July 17, 2017

If serious compromise on healthcare were possible, what would Democrats give?

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As Republicans flail away at the BCRA, Democrats' first murmurs about bipartisan legislation to stabilize the ACA marketplace have been...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

A pill quite poison from Frelinghuysen

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In late June, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, chaired by Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), released a financial service...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Not drowning but waiving: Timothy Jost on how Democrats might compromise responsibly on ACA

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There's news today -- good news -- of Democrats in both the House and Senate acknowledging flaws in the ACA and proposing their own fix...
Saturday, July 08, 2017

Those uninsured by the BCRA "not losing, but choosing"? Get ready to hear it more.

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Bloomberg reporter Steve Dennis flags a Republican talking point in favor of their latest travesty of a 'healthcare" bill that we...
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Friday, July 07, 2017

Info sources for healthcare wars

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If I post this, I'll have an easier time finding it myself...an index of fact/stat sources for our current healthcare wars as well as f...
Sunday, July 02, 2017

Healthcare spending cuts, Democrat style. Healthcare spending cuts, Republican style

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The cut to federal Medicaid spending that CBO estimates would result from the BCRA -- $750 billion over ten years -- superficially recalls...
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Saturday, July 01, 2017

The real cost of "benchmark silver" for low income BCRA enrollees

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For ACA marketplace enrollees with incomes under 200% FPL -- over half of all enrollees -- benchmark silver plans have an average actuarial...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

The party of Cost Sharing Inflation

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When House Republicans sued the Obama administration in 2014 to stop federal payments to health insurers for Cost Sharing Reduction subsidi...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Trading Medicaid coverage for high deductible private market coverage

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The Senate version of the AHCA, the Orwellianly named Better Care Reconciliation Act , does even more fundamental damage to the U.S. health...
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Quick thoughts before the bill hits the tape

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The Senate iteration of the AHCA is due out in about 40 minutes. A couple of quick thoughts, brought into focus by David Anderson's ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

AHCA would increase New Jersey's uninsured population by 540,000: NJPP Report

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540,000 fewer people in New Jersey will have health insurance by 2026 under the American Health Care Act (AHCA) than under current law, acc...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Amend the Senatized AHCA

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To help Democrats introduce thousands of amendments before the (Senatized) AHCA comes to a vote, Indivisible is inviting all of us to add o...
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Saturday, June 17, 2017

An American road to single payer

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Ezra Klein offers an astute political forecast : ...if Republicans leave Obamacare gutted and the political arguments that led to it in ...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

The Medicaid Dismemberment Act

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Over at healthinsurance.org, I've made a case that the AHCA is not simply -- or even primarily -- an ACA repeal bill. It's a Medic...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Senate "moderates" promised long ago to support the ACA repeal bill in progress

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I keep reading that Senators Capito and Portman and Heller, relative Republican "moderates" from states that have embraced the A...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Senate Republicans may outspend the ACA on individual market subsidies -- at Medicaid's expense

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While Republican senators working on ACA repeal will doubtless screw up the individual market for health insurance, they are not planning t...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Senate exterminators gear up to expel Medicaid expansion beneficiaries

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Earlier this spring, we had a squirrel in our eaves. An exterminator installed a one-way door, leaving the squirrel free to rattle about u...
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