People applying early in open enrollment for advance payments beginning in January 2014, therefore, would have likely had their incomes … More
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Common Sense Economics: Aligning Incentives with Evidence-based Care | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
Standard economic theory in healthcare assumes that demand for medical services is inelastic. Simply stated, inelasticity means that demand for … More
Obamacare’s Second Open Season: Average Premium Up 23 Percent – After Subsidies | Health Policy Blog | NCPA.org
For the states using healthcare.gov, only 4.2 million of the 8.8 million 2015 enrollees were enrolled at the end of … More
G. Keith Smith, M.D. – Health “Coverage” as a Distraction – Health “Coverage” as a Distraction
To provide “coverage” for everyone in the current climate of gross overcharging primarily serves the interests of those who employ … More
Government Bailouts Business Strategy for Obamacare Health Insurance Co-ops | Health Policy Blog | NCPA.org
Taken together, these facts suggest CoOportunity executives purposely set rates low to gain market share — assuming taxpayers would bail-out … More
Paying With Other People’s Money | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
An established principle of money management goes something like this: “No one cares about your money more than you do”. … More
What Will Happen If Supreme Court Cuts ObamaCare Subsidies?
The Administration, however, had a ready fix: the IRS just wrote a rule that allows the subsidies to flow anyway, … More
Too Many Squirrels, Not Enough Attention to Their Food Source | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
Locating the food source for this second group of squirrels is pretty easy. All they have to do is show … More
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