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 …
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What You Need To Know About Medicare For All, Part I
A study by Charles Blahousat the Mercatus Center estimates that Medicare for all would cost $32.6 trillion over the next ten years. Other studies have been in the same ballpark and they imply that we would need a 25% payroll …
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Donald Trump Takes A Big Step Toward Personal And Portable Health Insurance
READ THIS ARTICLE below if you want to understand the degree to which this ruling is an important step for healthcare reform. But as John C. Goodman points out, administrative ruling can only go so far without being codified by …
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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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Trump’s new rule will give businesses and workers better health care options – CNN
A HUGE WIN FOR THE LABOR MARKET AND A STEP TOWARDS ENDING JOB-LOCK! This is one of the most positive and substantive changes in healthcare policy to come out of Washington, D.C. in the past 40 years. It finally pierces …
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The Urban Myth of PPOs | LinkedIn
“Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) A type of health plan that contracts with medical providers, such as hospitals and doctors, to create a network of participating providers. You pay less if you use providers that belong to the plan’s network.” Oh …
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 …
