Caution Employers! With all the focus on Transparency mandates and HRA executive orders, much of the ACA remains in force (unfortunately). Even though the individual mandate penalty (uh…tax) will not be enforced beyond 2018, the employer mandate is still in …
Category: Large group insurance market
Trump could revolutionize the private health insurance market
Some believe the Individual Market is too weak to revive, given the hit it took as as result of the ACA. I am optimistic that this ruling to utilize HRA is this manner will be a “shot in the arm” …
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Analysis of the ACA: A Public Policy “Devil in the Details”
Individual Health Shrinkage Drives Up Uninsured Rate: CBO Data ~Enrollment in every other major type of coverage grew or held steady~ The subtitle in the article above is correct: Enrollment in every other major type of coverage grew or held …
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Lies That Won’t Die: Health Insurance Costs and Healthcare – Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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Trump’s New Vision for Health Care
Hats off to John C. Goodman again! His work in leading the effort for market-based healthcare reform over the past 4 decades, and highlighting the government’s role in the dysfunctional mess we labor in, is second to none. This Forbes …
Who Wouldn’t Have Coverage If the Obamacare Mandate Is Repealed | The Heritage Foundation
…a recent review of the academic literature on the subject finds a mixed bag, but with the strongest link between coverage and health outcomes in cases where health insurance coverage improves access to care, “particularly among people with lower incomes and chronic …
Save Us From The Health Care Reformers: They’re The Problem, Not The Solution
Dr. Goodman’s article is a fantastic foray into the dark history organized medicine, culminating with a brutally honest assessment of the cartel that resulted. He gives a great preview of the good stuff in Greg Scandlen’s new book, Myth Busters: Why Health …
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A Path Towards a Viable Interstate Health Insurance Market | Robert Nelson, MD | Pulse | LinkedIn
Alternatives to our current over-priced and dysfunctional health insurance market are often biased, and thus limited, by our current operational and regulatory structure. These structures are so entrenched in our healthcare psyche that it makes it difficult sometimes to set these …
