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Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
The PPACA Mandate and Individual Rates
By Allison BellResearchers at the kind of think tank that generally supports PPACA say the mandate would hold down costs.
January 12, 2012
The Bloodying of PolitiFact (Columbia Journalism Review)Few people, journalists included, understand Medicare, but it impacts all of us, and its important.
January 12, 2012
Medicare Whac-A-Mole (Reason.com)House Republicans, you may have heard, are trying to end Medicare as we know it. And well they shouldMedicare as we know it is the nations biggest fiscal disaster.
January 12, 2012
Medicare Whac-A-Mole (Reason.com)House Republicans, you may have heard, are trying to end Medicare as we know it. And well they shouldMedicare as we know it is the nations biggest fiscal disaster.
January 12, 2012
The Fate of Health Care Reform — What to Expect in 2012 (New England Journal of Medicine)What health care reform will actually accomplish is still to be determined, argues David K. Jones and it will be determined this year.
January 12, 2012
The Fate of Health Care Reform — What to Expect in 2012 (New England Journal of Medicine)What health care reform will actually accomplish is still to be determined, argues David K. Jones and it will be determined this year.
January 12, 2012
To Understand Health Overhaul, Try a Comic Book (NPR)Health care reform is no laughing matter, but MIT economist Jonathan Gruber's new comic book on the subject aims to communicate some pretty complicated policy details in a way that, if not exactly side-splitting, is at least engaging.
January 12, 2012
EBRI: Health Account Enrollment JumpsMany holders have now had HSAs or HRAs 3 years or longer.