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Tapped out in Kentucky: Back story to an ACA hardship case

On bronze-smithing the ACA

How conservatives might amend (rather than destroy) the ACA

New data: health exchange design matters

Employers, HSAs and the ACA

Health exchange design has a clear impact on metal level choices

Scalia researched torture's efficacy by watching "24"

Obama: Drop that "Plans for under 100!" pitch

Forecast: A lot more Pennsylvanians will buy bronze plans in the ACA marketplace in 2015 than in 2014

Is Medicaid expansion reducing SSI claims? If so, an uninsured diabetic in Tennessee called it

Instead of adding copper plans to the ACA marketplace, enhance bronze

What I wanted to ask Kevin Counihan

It's the wages, stupid

That high deductible ain't ineluctible

"Ware that swinging benchmark!" ACA Auto-renewal peril in Philadelphia

This is how you let people know what the ACA has to offer

Connecticut's ACA exchange shows how to communicate with low-income health insurance buyers

Can the ACA exchanges steer customers away from bad choices?

Why go for the bronze?

The ACA and the white working class

Gruber clips inspire powerful condensed defenses of the ACA

Fleshing out a (real) ACA hardship story in the WSJ

The Times wrestles with ACA re-enrollment; I call some fouls

Getting the word to the uninsured: Can Healthcare.gov show the subsidy, pronto?

Is the tax code the best route to attacking wage stagnation?

Healthcare.gov 2.0 is live. A couple of problems...

Healthcare.gov is already better than it was when Open Season ended

Evidence from Kaiser: Most ACA shoppers made informed choices

Master saboteurs

Two ways to reform the ACA's free preventive services

Rational choice in the ACA marketplace

Maybe we should call blue states bronze states

In Mississippi ACA rollout, one big disaster, one small success

What the ACA can't cure

Ebola's Information Paradox, Part II: Do we hear?

A surprise (to me) regarding Medicaid eligibility under the ACA

I agree

NYT spotlights plight of ACA bronze plan buyers, leaves out vital context

The ACA marketplace and the toilet paper aisle

CMS warns current ACA enrollees to shop anew.

Grazing in the gaffeteria

News from New York: Most low-income ACA private plan buyers chose wisely

Tax code progressivity isn't everything. But the top line matters

Footnote to a Kliff note

Paul Krugman agrees with me

ACA signups: Why is bronze more popular in blue states?

ACA Signups: "Over 9.5 million served"?*

Buying a health plan: Don't try this at home?

Having some health insurance is better than having none. But American insurance...

Did too many low income ACA shoppers buy bronze plans?

Repetition again*

Elisabeth Rosenthal exposes hospitals as free-billing zones

If you answer the first question wrong on healthcare.gov, no soup(sidy) for you

Two questions about Obama's thinking about ISIS

Obama phones it in

No, Obama is not plunging neck-deep in the Big Muddy

The Republicans' ACA shell game

Question for Obama: Why is arming a "moderate" Syrian opposition no longer a "fantasy"?

Contain, degrade, destroy ISIS? It's a timeline

No, Virginia, ACA administrators do not need to "retain" the prior 8 million signups in 2015

"We don't have a strategy yet" is a strategy

Gideon Levy, Jeremiah

Inching toward immortality

Will the ACA reduce the disability rolls?

In which Clinton slams Obama by articulating his "organizing principle"

A stealth modernist's divine lamppost

"What's a subsidy?" -- It's hard to reach the uninsured

Hillary Clinton was not so hawkish on Iraq

If you're dropping ACA coverage for any reason, I'd like to hear from you

Hedges, lies and pablum: Clinton to Goldberg

Read Goldberg's interview with Hillary Clinton before you read Goldberg's account of that interview

Barbarians at the gate

If you like your ACA plan, you very likely won't be renewing anyway

The ACA preserved state regulation of health insurance

No, Ben Nelson didn't scuttle the ACA's federal exchange

Michael Cannon gives the game away, cont.*

Michael Cannon gives the game away

What's the web got to do with it? -- the uninsured need human help

Would you kill the Boys from Brazil?

The ACA provision that should have killed Halbig

If I forget thee, O Buffalo

SCOTUS: Federal government can't *deny* subsidies to refusenik states?

Could the ACA exchanges go the way of the Medicaid expansion?

Let them all in? Laying a thought experiment on top of a thought experiment

Winning asylum in the U.S.: imminent danger of death is not enough

The U.S. healthcare system, up my nostrils

Bypassing healthcare.gov, revisited

Whaddaya mean, you didn't know about the subsidy? --Improving healthcare.gov

One more Jewish Voice for Peace

Nostalgic bullying

Perennial Millennials?

Yes, Peter Suderman, the ACA covers the short-term as well as long-term uninisured.

Hey, red state governors: here's an ACA "repeal and replace" plan to protect the rate-shocked

The bipartisan consensus on healthcare cost control

Can states "repeal and replace" the ACA? Nicholas Bagley on the scope of the law's "innovation waivers"

Um...

Can an ACA marketplace offer too much choice? (cont.)

Does the ACA shaft the working class and middle class as Robert Laszewski claims?

Raymond Scheppach: States wll take back their ACA exchanges (eventually)

In which Krugman borrows Martin Wolf's scalpel, possibly via Geithner

More choice is coming to ACA exchanges. How much is too much?

Michael Leavitt on State-level healthcare reform

When "choice" is a euphemism for "wealth"

ICYRMI: Six online classics of 21st century history

Seeing eye to eye on Afghanistan: Bowe Bergdahl and Robert Gates

Hey, what about Obama's threat to veto the NDAA if it maintains restrictions on prisoner transfer?

John McCain is Obama's Sal Maglie

Cue the WilllieHortoning

Is Obama offering "new ways of understanding" the economy?

Piketty: U.S. sold its middle class birthright for a mess of Reaganite pottage

Obama's audacious claim: U.S. is retooling foreign policy from a position of strength

Is Obama a "superdove"? No.

The Obama Doctrine: Pushing on a String?

When a heavily subsidized private health plan doesn't quite suffice

Political polarization correlates with rising inequality

Another survey shows: those who remain uninsured don't know about ACA subsidies

Pence palms a card in plain sight

If the hospital's nonprofit, the CEO may not be

Robert Laszewski's ACA blind spot

How to choose a health plan? Even Austin Frakt needed help

Is there a hole in the heart of U.S. healthcare cost control?

McKinsey's really important finding: the still-uninsured don't know about ACA subsidies

Reporters read insurance execs' testimony before yesterday's House ACA hearing. Looks like GOP reps didn't

Is health insurance worth the money? Would you do without it?

Don't deny ACA-driven rate-shock. Do put it in perspective

Fauxbamacare freebie No. 1: Covering those with pre-existing conditions

Republicans wouldn't scrap the main driver of ACA rate shock

The ACA saved his life. Its subsidies saved his finances. Its enemies almost killed him

Attention, Mitch McConnell: More than half of Kentucky is a high-risk pool

More than half the families in four deep red states have a member with a pre-existing condition

Red state attitudes toward the ACA: like America's, but more so

Bringing a fire extinguisher to a flood

In December 2008, support for ACA linchpins was broad and shallow

Liberal Dem, Conservative Doc

Program note

Racism in service of plutocracy: Beutler's response to Chait

Tell me your ACA-shopping story

Cognitive dissonance on Passover

Why the South doth prevail (and why to some extent it didn't)

The moral (and economic and social) equivalent of war, revisited

Chait channels Obama

Some notes on the RAND survey

This subsidized health insurance was brought to you by...?

"How politics makes us stupid": Ezra Klein's hypothesis, Chait's case study

For pharma and medical device makers, U.S. is The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Chewing the Israeli spider to catch the Iranian fly

The health insurance market is an ocean, endlessly churning

Quote of the decade

Where Obama's placation ended

A correction in NYT ACA coverage

A love lyric for Sunday

Who took your Medicaid away?

The Obamaiad

ACA enrollment: driving uphill in a snowstorm.

Between Scylla and Charybdis in a hospital bed

Why go through Healthcare.gov or state exchanges if you're subsidy-ineligible? Good reasons for a few

ACA signup: it ain't over when it's over

Yes, Mitt, it's good to be able to fire "people"

When a 30 year-old's health insurance decision was a matter of life or death

The ACA's satisfied unsubsidized

Sorry, gay marrieds: health insurers have to recognize your marriage

Obamacare to be repealed and replaced in 2017...

How Obama might ditch the individual mandate and save the ACA

Healthy, relatively wealthy, and hit by ACA rate hikes

Near ACA subsidy cliff? Covered California spox suggests calling an accountant

Gallup: A shift away from employer-sponsored health insurance?

COBRA or the ACA? cont.

Stat shots of the unsubsidized uninsured

OOPS! Don't forget the lower-profile Obamacare subsidies

Is the ACA reducing underinsurance?

Are gays Putin's Jews?

HealthSherpa claims to shorten ACA signup process, subsidy application included

Just how will Health Sherpa simplify ACA signup?

Healthcare.gov comes through in a complicated situation

Switching from COBRA to the ACA exchanges

Children, CHIP, Medicaid and the ACA

Program note

Are most buyers on ACA exchanges previously uninsured?

A modest proposal for improving chronic care

What the Saudis want from the U.S.

Buying unsubsidized insurance in the ACA universe: A preview

The Romance of the Rose, health policy edition

Democracy in action, kinda

Left behind: the uninsured who don't qualify for ACA subsidies

Don't call it Medicaid: Don Taylor on expanding health insurance in the South

What if the (Republican) dog catches the Obamacar(e)?

A tribal battle over health insurance portability

Edward Snowden, rhetorician?

Query: will the doc fix bend the healthcare cost curve?

Will the ACA boost retirement savings?

The health insurance "who pays?" tug-of-war

Obama's pre-k advocacy: agenda-setting vs. polarization

Bette in Spokane has some genuine pain (probably. Or maybe not...see updates)

Did communism keep the west in the pink?

As we hyperventilate, a quiet healthcare revolution?

For Ezra Klein, the past isn't past. It's news.

If Republicans win it all, what will they do to the ACA?

Obama's permission structures

Facto or factoid?

What Avik Roy won't tell you about healthcare in Switzerland and Singapore

Love vs. reason, or Martin Luther King vs. Steven Pinker

Toward the end, Obama still seeking beginnings

Most early ACA signups so far were previously insured. Is that bad?

Tweet of the century

Visions of dysfunction

Does Robert Gates know what's in Menendez-Kirk?

Gates, the un-Rumsfeld

The enemies of the ACA are failing

Just what has a single mother of three lost in Wisconsin's Medicaid "expansion"?

States on Healthcare.gov have closed the signup gap a bit with states running their own exchanges

A CHIP off the old block in the ACA

The ACA's pre-existing condition

Writhing out of narrow networks in a medical seller's market

Gates' America, no longer pearly

Remember "googol"?

A country struggling to share too-high healthcare costs

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