Saturday, September 28, 2019

The logic underpinning Medicare for all who want it

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Blog as sketchpad: as employer-sponsored insurance continues to slowly, steadily bleed Americans white , I think the case for a strong publ...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Just how big a bite does healthcare cost growth take out of earnings?

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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Employer-sponsored insurance as we know it is unsustainable. Now what?

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Unsubsidized? Buy bronze (probably)

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid   via box at top right (requires only an email address; you'll get 2-3 emails per week on average) In a pos...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Elizabeth Warren's healthcare toggle switch: A two-year review

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Friday, September 20, 2019

What's so great about Medicare?

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Kaiser Family Foundation polling indicates that when a majority of Americans say they're in favor of Medicare for all, most are thinkin...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Buttigieg goes first! -- Decries predatory hospital pricing and proposes to do something about it

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Healthcare regulation by exposé

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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Uninsurance goes upscale: The Census's Health Insurance Coverage Update for 2018

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Yesterday the Census Bureau* released its health insurance estimates for 2018. The top line showed a rise in the uninsured population of 1...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

When silver loading discounts trump strong CSR (the nonexpansion state "advantage," take 5)

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Friday, September 06, 2019

Why 2019 ACA enrollment drops were concentrated in Medicaid expansion states on HealthCare.gov, Take 4

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Sunday, September 01, 2019

For further study

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Healthcare reformers can't leave employer-sponsored insurance untouched

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Monday, August 26, 2019

Who pays for astronomically expensive orphan drugs? Some questions prompted by the NYT report

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Surprise! New Jersey ACA marketplace outperforms the national market

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When CMS reported enrollment totals in the ACA marketplace at the end of Open Enrollment last December, the news for New Jersey was disappo...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

The retentive ACA marketplace, revisited

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Friday, August 16, 2019

CMS subtext: The ACA marketplace is in recovery

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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Is subsidized enrollment in the ACA marketplace really up since 2016?

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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

CSR attrition vs. silver loading stimulus, 2017-2019

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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

ACA marketplace enrollment is down at low incomes as well as at high ones

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid   via box at top right (requires only an email address; you'll get 2-3 emails per week on average) [Update,...