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The Appian road to autocracy

Universal health insurance: A civilized society's single checkout line

#NoRepealWithoutReplace: Tweet to save the ACA

The ACA's fate may be determined this week

The other subsidy for those who buy their own health insurance

Hmmmm...Team Trump queasy about ACA insta-repeal?

ACA afflicted by a deductible cliff

The wealth and health of states, cont.

Obama, dis-illusioner in chief

Where #the27percent are the 33 percent (with "declinable pre-existing conditions")

A mantra for Democrats in ACA 'replace' negotiation: "Save Medicaid First"

Up and coming

Give PriceCare to the not-poor

Cutting off CSR subsidies will hit red state enrollees especially hard

Tom Price will probably cut your health insurance subsidy in half

Attention, Paul Krugman: Not everyone votes

Tom Price's ACA replacement plan opens a sluice gate to privatizing Medicare

Can the electoral college revert to its original function to negate its original intent?

Many people don't know what's on offer through the ACA. Or through Medicare.

"What have you got to lose?" -- Republicans' latest lie about the ACA

What exactly is the Medicare guarantee?

What Ryan wants to do to Medicare

A managed Medicaid bailout for repeal-and-delay Republicans

The individual mandate is not the hill for Democrats to die on

"Redemption" threatens the ACA marketplace (and Medicaid and Medicare)

The Medicaid expansion...expanded?

TrumpTruth

Shock treatment or catastrophe?

Does competition help ACA marketplace customers? Mayhew's Tennessee test

Fly-specking a myth-busting from HHS on the ACA marketplace

25% premium hikes "just a flesh wound," say some Democrats

The two-track individual market for health insurance

See plans and prices -- and get buttonholed for Cost Sharing Reduction -- on HealthCare.gov

HHS projects no growth in individual market for health insurance in 2017

Chipping away at the uninsured: What about those who can't afford employer-sponsored insurance?

Michelle Obama opens the doors of perception

Are 2.5 million off-exchange health plan enrollees subsidy-eligible?

Bill Clinton's other "craziest thing in the world"

Hillary, speak to service workers

In which Obama feels the pain of the price tag he imposed on the ACA

Blumberg and Holahan on belling the healthcare cost cat

The other side of John Sides' debate skepticism

Mean vs.Median in post-ACA health insurance

"The political magic of C.S. Lewis" went just so far

Medicare buy-in, Republican style

A few statistical anomalies in healthcareville

Hastening to be slaves and tyrants

Scoping out a Medicare buy-in

New York Times calls out four Trump lies in one day

As more Americans move out of poverty, will some move into ACA marketplace?

Give Republicans this: They know how to make insurers happy

How bout adding a Medicare advantage to the ACA Marketplace?

The World Turned Upside Down: Risk adjustment and its discontents

My take on the ACA marketplace

In 2016, CBO started counting Medicaid enrollment differently

Yes, the ACA marketplace needs to grow. But it also needs to shrink

Our failures of political rhetoric are asymmetric

HHS markets to the lower income brackets

What if a public option were added to the ACA marketplace now?

In which Gingrich sums up his whole career

Underlying Aetna's ACA pullback: Despair of Congress?

Could the ACA help the Democrats take Florida?

The fastidious fascist strikes again

Yes We HCAN, sort of: Richard Kirsch's blow-by-blow account of the grassroots battle for health reform

The system is blinking red at Trump

On-exchange or off-exchange, the unsubsidized seem to make similar choices

Obama calls Trump unfit for the presidency. Republican react in outrage, right?

For Hillary, a siren song from the right

Donald Trump, can you hear Ghazala Khan now?

Hillary, tell us a story

Hillary Clinton good enough

In which Republican pundits hear Obama for the first time

When a democracy offers "one choice": Obama's haunted celebration

In which Bill fleshes out Hillary's boilerplate

Michelle Obama took the high road to lay Donald Trump in the dust

By Trump's edits shall you know him

Brookings bombshell: ACA lowered premiums, subsidies aside. Some caveats....

In Covered California, deductibles get steeper and narrower

Whither the 70,000 Louisiana marketplace enrollees who are newly Medicaid eligible?

In Dallas, Obama returns to Gettysburg

The public option is inside out

About one in five ACA marketplace enrollees should be in Medicaid

Clinton avoids hard questions on healthcare reform in Ezra Klein convo (and Klein lets her)

Selling health insurance to young adults is inherently hard

Commonwealth: Lower income ACA marketplace buyers get a tolerable substitute for employer-sponsored insurance

He who buys bronze absconds

ACA Marketplace snapshot: Bronze plan enrollees drop plans at higher rate than silver plan holders

Uh oh: Trump has a coherent narrative

A close look at one more ACA glitch

Subtitle to the Federalist Papers: We are not throwing away our shot

Obama, Florida, Hanauer

Average income and reported satisfaction in the ACA marketplace: Kaiser survey revisited

Trump, backwards and in denial

Hamilton's ghost in the Gettysburg Address

Forecast: Prices paid for health plans in the ACA marketplace to rise 12-15% in 2017

No one can say the people are deceived

Silver plans to be available for less in ACA marketplace in 2017

"Most people can find plans for under $100 per month with a deductible under $1000 per month"

Nicholas Kristof, meet Nicholas Kristof

We were young, we bought bronze, we churned....

Takeup of Cost Sharing Reduction increased on HealthCare.gov in 2016

Silver plan selection dropped among new enrollees in California in 2016

About that swift Medicaid expansion enrollment in Louisiana

Among 375,000 Louisianans newly eligible for Medicaid: 75,000+ Marketplace enrollees

A Medicare buy-in? Harold Pollack discusses Clinton's trial balloon

98% of Americans with health insurance are subsidized. How bout the other 2%?

Religious freedom, but...

Health insurance in the U.S. is deteriorating, Kaiser survey indicates (to me)

How many Americans who buy their own insurance are unsubsidized?

If you're giving people a Medicaid-like provider network, do it at Medicaid-like prices

Elisabeth Rosenthal on narrow networks in ACA marketplace: A few "yes buts"

Do Democrats and Republicans get the same coverage in the ACA marketplace?

Clinton's ACA subsidy sweeteners: Something for everyone

For United Healthcare, What's the matter with Iowa? -- Part II

Could a Clinton HHS entice more Medicaid expansions?

The NIHCM Awards

For UHC, what's the matter with Iowa?

Can Hillary Clinton strengthen the ACA without legislation?

Medicaid outperforms marketplace in Kaiser probe of low income ACA beneficiaries

Proposed in Minnesota, an industrial-strength public option

What kinds of health plans are unsubsidized buyers choosing? A hint from HealthSherpa

NEJM Study: Vertical consolidation may negate benefits of health care coordination

Black, me?

My healthcare credo to date

Is the ACA's drag on employer-sponsored insurance less than expected?

Notes on Gallup's latest health insurance status polling

Is employer-sponsored insurance superior to ACA marketplace plans? For whom?

What kinds of health plans are people buying outside the ACA marketplace? An eHealth snapshot

A major divide in the ACA individual market for health insurance

On average, ACA marketplace plans are gold equivalent

Are some Medicaid-eligible Indianans still in subsidized private health plans?

CBO: Individual insurance market (including ACA marketplace) at about 83% capacity

Hawaii's ACA enrollment mystery

Electoral epigrams, 2015-2016 (GOP edition)

Optimism flash

How many girls? Zero?

How's New York's ACA marketplace doing? (updated)

Fun with Kaiser!

In which Hillary Clinton is confronted by a likely ACA loser (UPDATED)

Learning by buying in the ACA marketplace

ACA marketplace is pricing out gold and platinum plans, while silver selection stays stable

Chewing over the future of health care reform

Getting medical care like it's 1999

Clinton's afterthought is Sanders' lead

Kaiser: ACA marketplace at 70% capacity among subsidy-eligible

Ever made someone whole, Donald?

Trump the Incompetent

Godwin's Law is obsolete: Roger Cohen sounds the fascist alarm

How the GOP can stop Trump

What it looks like when mainstream leaders fall in behind a fascist

Murmur of a prayer

What would it cost a state to offer something like Medicaid to all its uninsured?

Hillary Clinton "waives through" the public option

Investment firms revive a home sale contract with a racist history

Cheap and narrow Molina gains market share in Covered California

What if all the ACA "options" were "public"?

How the ACA reversed two decades of insurance bleeding for the near-poor (and cut uninsurance for the poor too)

Love in the time of Obamacare, 2016

Will Clinton feel the Bern on Israel?

Coming today: An Obama message "for" Hillary?

Pussyfooting around torture

Look for America (at 3000 feet)

Rubio on Obama vs. Obama on Reagan

CMS Open Enrollment error in New York (updated, with CMS correction)

Trump blames

United Healthcare is a major MCO, but its large-market ACA plans don't reflect that

Clinton vs. Sanders: It's not really head vs. heart

Why Americans spend so much on health care: The big picture

Ignorance vs. unaffordability among the uninsured

A question for healthcare economists (update)

The chief fallout from killing Kynect

As Democrats mull how change works, consider Obama

For legally present non-citizens, a sometimes twisted path to ACA enrollment

You've heard of narrow networks? Get ready for narrow deductibles

Minnesota to consider extending public health insurance to most of those eligible for ACA subsidies

Among the newly Medicaid-eligible in Louisiana: 50,000-plus private plan enrollees

A thought about Trump

Facing the Facebook music

Obama on polarization: I failed, we will succeed

What's a healthcare article without a touch of Levitty?

A little less underinsurance on HealthCare.gov this year

A More Affordable Care Act? Some states may make it so

ACA enrollment 2016: pool somewhat wealthier; silver selection holds steady

Trump promises to keep the vermin out

ACA marketplace: What to watch for in 2016