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Obamacare’s Other Benefit
By Nelson Lichtenstein If it is done right, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) may well promise uninsured Americans a lot more than cheap, reliable medical care. It can also open the door to...
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A Health Plan for Rugged Individualists
By Uwe Reinhardt In his “The Great American Health Care Divide,” Brad DeLong laments the great ideological divide that has so long prevented this great country from developing a coherent national...
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Will ACA Implementation Lead to a Spike in Demand for Care?
By David I. Auerbach As the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) exchanges open and Medicaid expansion takes effect, millions of uninsured Americans will gain new coverage. This raises a key question: how are...
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The Uninsured Are Not Signing Up for Obamacare
By Robert Laszewski In my last post, I asked, “But what if most of the uninsured literally don’t buy Obamacare?” “Only 11% of consumers who bought new coverage under the law were previously uninsured,”...
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What About the Poor?
By Joe Flower Hospitals need to overhaul their processes so they can help the un- and under-insured stay healthy. Many people running health care institutions tell me that they have been fighting the...
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Metrics: Surprisingly, People Who Were Uninsured Last Year Remain Undecided...
By Katherine Grace Carman Since mid-December, we’ve brought you the latest data on public opinion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the RAND Health Reform Opinion Study (RHROS), a new way to...
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Taking Stock of the ACA
By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE With the ACA exchange enrollment deadline almost behind us, this is a good time to take a look at the big picture. Three years after the first baby steps of...
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Will the Uninsured Become Healthier Once They Receive Health Care Coverage?
By David Orentlicher, MD JD The Affordable Care Act might not bend the cost curve or improve the quality of health care, but it will save thousands of lives, as millions of uninsured persons receive...
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The Canadian Health Care System I Disparaged
By Wendell Potter When I recently returned home after a two-week speaking tour of Canada and began catching up on news about Obamacare, I was angry and upset, and not just at politicians and special...
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Early ACA Data Shows No Wave of Sick Patients
By JOSH GRAY & IYUE SUNG Since launching ACAView, our joint initiative between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and athenahealth, in early April, open enrollment under the Affordable Care...
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