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Tapped out in Kentucky: Back story to an ACA hardship case
How conservatives might amend (rather than destroy) the ACA
New data: health exchange design matters
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
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
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?
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
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
Ebola's Information Paradox, Part II: Do we hear?
A surprise (to me) regarding Medicaid eligibility under the ACA
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.
News from New York: Most low-income ACA private plan buyers chose wisely
Tax code progressivity isn't everything. But the top line matters
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
A correction in NYT ACA coverage
ACA enrollment: driving uphill in a snowstorm.
Between Scylla and Charybdis in a hospital bed
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?
Stat shots of the unsubsidized uninsured
OOPS! Don't forget the lower-profile Obamacare subsidies
Is the ACA reducing underinsurance?
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
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
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
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?
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?
Does Robert Gates know what's in Menendez-Kirk?
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