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Two reasons the proportion of young adults in ACA marketplace may be rising
Marketplace watch: ACA year in review
What about a state-level public option (with a remixed subsidy schedule?)
"Coordination without consolidation!"
Higher health plan prices may bring *more* young buyers into the exchanges
What if all private health insurers paid 120% Medicare rates?
Narrow networks: a crooked path to affordable healthcare?
About that deadline, HealthCare.gov..
The moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow
Once more, slowly: Obama sends a signal through the noise
Attention, Secretary Burwell: If you really want ACA shoppers to consider more than price....
Partial protection against balance billing? More on the NAIC model law
The NAIC takes on balance billing
Dollars to donut holes, Ambetter undercuts the competition (including UnitedHealthcare)
Ambetter's donut hole coverage: high deductibles alloy ACA silver
In ACA exchanges, the key word is "exchange"
"A million bin Ladens will bloom"
It's fair, O Robert Pear, to spotlight high deductibles in ACA plans. But some context is missing.
Premium vs. deductible: New tools oversimplify
The Counter-Upshot: Obamacare is quite as egalitarian as it appears
Your health insurer may not want to control the cost of medical care
Supporting the biggest decision for ACA marketplace shoppers
How bronze plans offer fool's gold to the Treasury
Forecast: Bronze plan takeup will rise in California in 2016
Affordable underinsurance? That's where healthcare.gov's new total cost estimator may steer you
More on Charles Gaba's "Two glaring errors in the WSJ anti-Obamacare editorial"
Surprise! Where silver plans are cheaper, more people buy them
Hillary homes in on antitrust enforcement
Who leaves employer-sponsored insurance on the table?
The opposite of Bernie Sanders
In ACA marketplace, low-hanging fruit is more than half picked
Rational choice in the ACA marketplace - Santa Cruz edition
The shrinking subsidizable ACA private plan buyer pool
Hey, Jeb! Who's getting those "huge new subsidies" under the ACA?
Cost Sharing Reduction in Covered California
Mysteries of the Maryland ACA Marketplace, cont.
What's a "typical" silver plan? Not what Emory researchers say it is
Mysteries of the Maryland Marketplace
So, ACA marketplace, how're you doin so far? [Updated 10/14]
"You oughta be in Medicaid" revisited
"Are marketplace plans affordable?"
The Pope's swift turns of thought
Hillary Clinton's pocket patches for healthcare costs
ACA exchanges in 2016: targeting just 6.4 million subsidy-eligible uninsureds?
Why does the Census show such small gains among the poor in government-provided health insurance?
Sure, Kasich hates the ACA and the Iran deal
The Census on health insurance gains: who got what and how?
Kaiser tracks modest premium increases for benchmark plans -- which means what to whom?
The feds are taking cost sharing and premium subsidies away from many ACA private plan enrollees
Some low-income ACA shoppers bought gold plans*
Obama overcompensates for winning
The ACA's uncertain shield against underinsurance: A CSR compendium
No man is an island -- but the GOP is
Five factors driving (or inhibiting) CSR takeup in ACA private plan markets
Name Ohio "McKinley" -- and don't stop there!
Which insured Americans get no subsidy whatsoever?
Biden in Pilgrimage to Democrats' Matron Saint
How many of the uninsured know what's on offer? Not many, Urban finds
A quibble with Avalere over CSR takeup
A tough progressive critique of the ACA
The Urban Institute's Medicaid expansion proposal could help the ACA private plan market
As the ACA mandate bites harder, will a Bronze Age follow?
Pet insurance: permission to spend?
Best tool against inequality: antitrust enforcement? (of two kinds?)
What if Congress rejects the Iran deal? Ex-Mossad chief Halevy fills in the blanks
Five Republicans who are not democrats
Underinsured and deep in debt: which cracks did this family fall through?
Rejoice, Uticans! A shower of silver shall rain upon you in 2016.
New York's ACA exchange publishes takeup rates for Cost Sharing Reduction
Some sidelights on Covered California's modest rate increases for 2016
The source of Huckabee's Holocaust porn
New light on QHP enrollees' income levels in states that refused to expand Medicaid
For ACA plan buyers, it's not the price, it's the price spread
Where are Pennsylvania's low-income 2014 private plan enrollees?
ACA in Mississippi: Low incomes, high silver selection, high attrition -- and no Medicaid
Alabama's Obamacare buyers ride a Silverado
Refusal to expand Medicaid swelled Florida's private plan ACA signups
Last laugh for Republicans in the SCOTUS session that was
An add-on health benefit for same-sex couples who marry
Obama's eulogy for Clementa Pinckney was also autobiography
A quarter of those who stand to lose ACA subsidies should be in Medicaid
Polling reflects the ACA's tough tradeoffs
For ACA marketplaces, the near-poor have been the sweet spot
Why the ACA remains unpopular, cont.
Housekeeping note: Pennsylvania story in progress
Victims of an ACA subsidy cutoff may live mainly in Republican districts -- but will they vote?
Hillary's short history of inequality is too short
Five under-reported facts about the ACA
On ACA exchanges, silver is usually not silver
John Barrasso's tell: King is a fraud
Connecticut continues to crush it on Cost Sharing Reduction
Times reporters call bullshit on senators' surveillance claims
"Strong enough to be self-critical": Obama's handwritten additions to Selma speech
New data on Cost Sharing Reduction in ACA marketplaces
Too many choices on ACA exchanges?
Underinsurance: What's offsetting the rise in deductibles?
LBJ before Selma: wait -- no, go
Mysteries of underinsurance in the Commonwealth Fund survey
Commonwealth and Kaiser on underinsurance
Post-King fallout: Waiting for Superwaiver?
Obama and Warren: A contrast in rhetorical styles
Barbara Pym's quote-happy Brits
Any low income readers from PA out there?
The ACA and the Working Class - Kevin Drum Festschrift
The conversation shifts toward wages
Why inner city hospitals move to greener pastures
ACA customer satisfaction: it's the prices
Scrap the ACA's awkward dual subsidy system?
Program note: Kevin Drum festschrift
New York to make health insurance *really* affordable for low-income residents
Preview: Lots of Medicaid-eligible Pennsylvanians re-enrolled in QHPs
Does inequality make us more conservative? Maybe, but so does liberal policy enactment
Obamacare customers "stick with" healthcare.gov
Why did Healthcare.gov outdraw the state exchanges in 2015?
An Israeli moderate's breathtaking sense of entitlement
Why do more people say the ACA has harmed than helped them?
Affordable health insurance vs. affordable health care
In Washington State, too many low-income bronze plan buyers
"Obamacare, Obamacare! stay a little. Ha!*
Israelis read Obama right. Well, half right.
Chastising Netanyahu: Fury or cold calculation?
On U.S. support for Israel, Obama is turning the battleship a few degrees
Administration rebuke to Netanyahu name-checks those "indissoluble bonds"
Medicaid expansion means a richer QHP buyer pool on ACA exchanges
A reduced ACA spending projection that no one should celebrate
Timothy Jost Discusses an ACA Provision that Should Kill the King Suit
How to love America, by Barack Obama
And now for something completely frivolous..
Nicholas Bagley parses the oral arguments in King v. Burwell
Republican can do what they will to American healthcare -- by accepting the Affordable Care Act
Three signs the ACA private plan marketplace is working
King v. Burwell and Congress v. P5 + 1
Gallup misreads its state ACA data: state-run marketplaces no better at reaching uninsured
Michael Leavitt envisions a post-King negotiation to amend the ACA
Conservative reform of the ACA: cutting strings at different ends
Obama's seductive love for America
The disappearing shoparound on Healthcare.gov
The case against King, by Scalia, Kennedy et al
No, Clinton and Frist, ACA marketplace coverage will not render CHIP unnecessary
Obama soft-focuses our domestic ills
Hey, HHS, you're boasting about the wrong metric
Narrow networks: a painful of tourniquet on a bleeding healthcare system
Yes, Ta-Nehisi Coates, it's good to be right
Too many aid-eligible ACA applicants say they were "told" otherwise
When employers drop coverage: Two brokers' perspectives on the individual market in the ACA era
HHS expected *more* low-income ACA buyers to select silver plans
Will Republicans now learn to hate Medicare payment reform?
The ACA provision that should kill King, updated
Bronze ACA plans are skimpy, but compared to what?
How is the ACA affecting employer-sponsored insurance?
Maryland's low income ACA customers benefit from Connecticut's site design
If King is upheld, what will Congress do?
The ACA: Good policy, tough politics
In Rhode Island, low-income ACA buyers chose silver
The ACA's invisible deductible discounts
Not quite the Harvard plan, but....