Should People Who Don’t Take Good Care of Themselves Pay More for Health...
When healthcare reformers talk about making health insurance fair, some suggest that people who don’t take care of themselves really shouldn’t expect the rest of us to pay for their folly. They point...
View ArticleIf We Mandate Insurance, Should 20-Somethings Pay Less?
Should insurers be able to offer less expensive policies to the young and healthy? Or should they be required to offer the same benefits to everyone at the same price? In states where insurance is...
View ArticleReplying to Comment on “Should 21-year olds pay less,”
Barry— Thanks for your comment on “Should 21-Year Olds Pay Less . . .” While we’re in agreement on many points, I have to disagree with your first sentence—that “in theory the Massachusetts approach of...
View ArticleMassachusetts Health Reform: The Canary in the Gold Mine?
Advocates for health care reform have been keeping an eye on Massachusetts, hopeful that its new health reform law will serve as a pilot program for the nation. I’m much less hopeful than I was two...
View ArticleConditional Cash Transfers: An Interim Model for Health Care Reform?
This past September, New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg welcomed 5,000 families into the pilot program of Opportunity NYC– the nation’s first conditional cash transfer (CCT) program. Based on a Mexican...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform: What Do Americans Want? (Or Think They Want?)
On the surface, it seems that American voters have made their will clear. Poll after poll shows that they are calling for a major overhaul of our health care system. But when you look closer, their...
View ArticleThe New York Times “Gets Cracking” on Rising Health Care Costs
On Sunday the New York Times published an editorial that set out to analyze “The High Cost of Health Care.” The result might best be described as “muddled.” What is exasperating is that about 85...
View ArticleWhat Will the Supreme Court’s Decision Mean for the November Election?
Thursday, when Chief Justice Roberts explained that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is constitutional because the “penalty” that some Americans will have to pay is, for all practical purposes, a “tax,”...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act’s “Penalty”: If You Don’t Buy Health Insurance in...
Note to readers; a longer version of this post originally appeared on HealthInsurance.org, along with a penallty calculator. Despite the hullabaloo about the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that nearly...
View ArticleTruth Squad: Is “Obamacare” Pushing Health Care Spending Higher? What Will...
In last Tuesday’s debate Mitt Romney suggested that, under Obamacare, health insurance premiums have spiraled by $2,500 per family. Not true. (Hat tip to Healthcarefinancenews.com.) First let’s get...
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