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2017: A year of healthcare combat
Joshua Peck looks back at HealthCare.gov's evolution
In which I fire a popgun against balance billing
Sabotage judo: States can turn individual mandate repeal to their advantage
On tax bill, Josh Gottheimer's Problem Solving is a problem
What I've learned as an ACA assister
Planning a two-step retirement, because health insurance
Steering clear of the subsidy cliff in the ACA marketplace
Late Days of Empire Edition: Health Wonk Review
The marketplace isn't all roses for the subsidized, either
A Medigap for the Marketplace?
Halfway back to the future in the individual market for health insurance
Replacing the individual mandate with auto-enrollment, part II
Who'll go to the mat for the individual mandate?
Trump thinks Putin's mind works like his
Hey, Republicans: Auto-enrollment is within reach
For Whom the Bronze Bell Tolls in the ACA Marketplace
Free bronze or CSR-boosted silver? The choice in 5 top marketplace counties
CSR windfall: Will it have bronze or gold cast?
Alert: HealthCare.gov "plan preview" tool is malfunctioning [FIXED as 10/28]
We already have the high deductibles...so would adding HSAs hurt?
Mulvaney's ACA demands: Give him one out of three?
Bronze and gold plan discounts in California, 2018
Does the Alexander-Murray bill adequately protect vulnerable groups?
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
60% of ACA marketplace enrollees with CSR are in nonexpansion states
Trump is stiffing health insurers for three months in 2017. States can make Treasury eat the cost.
Can blue states protect their health insurance markets from Trump's executive order?
States vary in their responses to CSR uncertainty
"X" is for ten: An anniversary for xpostfactoid
Covered California to middle-class enrollees: There (may be) gold in them thar hills
How well will healthcare.gov function for 2018?
The ACA is London after the Blitz
CSR takeup: Good enough for me* and Emily Gee
What might moderate Republicans do to the ACA?
A healthcare homepage chorus screaming STOP at Senate Republicans
If bipartisan ACA legislation comes back to the House, remember the Problem Solvers
My letter to Chris Christie on Graham-Cassidy
How could Patty Murray "thread the needle" with Lamar Alexander?
Census: ACA cut uninsured rate in half in Medicaid expansion states by 2016
Elizabeth Warren is for single payer, sort of. And against healthcare profiteering...sort of.
ACA innovation waivers: a need for speed? Not so fast, says Emma Sandoe
How to hand the keys to an unfit successor
"Just a little procedural easing"....watch those ACA innovation waiver guardrails!
ACA marketplace remake: Iowa leverages Wellmark's warm cooperation
Not throwing away our Schatz: What kind of public option in the ACA marketplace?
If I had $194 billion...spending the federal funds that CSR cutoff would waste
Can Democrats afford to stand pat on the ACA?
Compromise maybe a little? Urban Institute's Blumberg and Holahan on what's next for the ACA
What price will Republicans extract for CSR funding and reinsurance?
Are New York's Essential Plan and Minnesota's MinnesotaCare threatened by CSR fund cutoff?
Peter Lee to HHS: Marketing makes the risk pool
Managed Medicaid for all? A compendium
"Not losing, choosing"? - Avik Roy turns up the gaslight on the BCRA
Go ahead, Trump, cut off CSR payments -- starting in 2018
If serious compromise on healthcare were possible, what would Democrats give?
A pill quite poison from Frelinghuysen
Not drowning but waiving: Timothy Jost on how Democrats might compromise responsibly on ACA
Those uninsured by the BCRA "not losing, but choosing"? Get ready to hear it more.
Info sources for healthcare wars
Healthcare spending cuts, Democrat style. Healthcare spending cuts, Republican style
The real cost of "benchmark silver" for low income BCRA enrollees
The party of Cost Sharing Inflation
Trading Medicaid coverage for high deductible private market coverage
Quick thoughts before the bill hits the tape
AHCA would increase New Jersey's uninsured population by 540,000: NJPP Report
An American road to single payer
The Medicaid Dismemberment Act
Senate "moderates" promised long ago to support the ACA repeal bill in progress
Senate Republicans may outspend the ACA on individual market subsidies -- at Medicaid's expense
Senate exterminators gear up to expel Medicaid expansion beneficiaries
As Republican moderates cave on Medicaid cuts, what can Dems do?
AHCA Reduces Federal Spending on Private Health Insurance by....4%
The senescence of the United States
Alternative Facts, Alternative Realities Edition of Health Wonk Review
Does Avik Roy want to preserve or privatize the Medicaid expansion?
CBO flips off the Upton Amendment to the AHCA
AHIP puts Medicaid first in "do no harm" plea to Republicans
Medical Billing: The Ten Do-well Commandments (after Elisabeth Rosenthal)
Single Payer in CA? The impediments are mountainous
My letter to the Senate Finance Committee about ACA repeal legislaton
CMS's warmup for AHCA-world: Guidance on ACA innovation waivers
A Sparer means to universal health insurance
The Beatles mourn Republican moderates
Will Medicaid drown in a high risk pool? (updated)
The pre-existing condition smokescreen
Tom MacArthur doesn't want you to know he's ready to uninsure millions
Tom MacArthur's faith-based waiver for the AHCA
Cutting off CSR is a war on the near-poor
Of index investing and traditional Medicare
New Jerseyans with pre-existing conditions, by Congressional District
Oklahoma points the way to healthcare peace
If Republicans had created the ACA marketplace...
The cost of single payer: roughing it out
"Medicaid expansion is the jewel of the ACA"
What comes after "catastrophic success"? Larry Jacobs on Democrats' healthcare choices
What's next for Democrats in the healthcare wars?
Progressives, don't forget: The Freedom Caucus killed the AHCA
Trump threatens ACA marketplace collapse and nuclear blame war
The semi-satisfied unsubsidized
AHCA vs. ACA: Total subsidized shares of costs at different income levels and ages
"Moderate" Republican opposition to AHCA is looking very squishy
Psst, Democrats: Help Republicans out of the repeal box via Cassidy-Collins
Do we have to repeal the ACA to find out what's in it?
Short history of the decline and fall of American democracy
Pre-ACA, patchwork protections worked for the lucky
Two comparisons of Price plan vs. ACA marketplace are roughly congruent
Health Action 2017: Times that try our souls
More than half of ACA marketplace enrollees are in states that refused to expand Medicaid
Love knows no repeal: HealthPolicyValentines 2017
Absent: A Novel speaks to our American present
ACA doctors (of the law): What would you do with $3-5 billion per year?
Repair, not replace -- rebranding, or real change? Watch the Medicaid expansion
If ACA is repealed, how many will max out on restored lifetime coverage caps?
An exit ramp for Republican senators queasy about ACA repeal-and-delay
Losers and winners under medical underwriting
Betsy McCaughey, mother of the death panel myth, is gaslighting the ACA again
Fight ACA insta-repeal: Contact strategically placed friends and family
ACA defenders don't need to "learn from" the Tea Party. They beat them in 2009-10
TrumpCare's coming! What kind of garbage in a gold box awaits us?
It's up to you to save the ACA
Careful with that study! A second look at enrollment decisions in Covered California
The Rosetta Stone of Cost Sharing Reduction takeup in the ACA marketplace
Medicaid envy in the rust belt
Who are the "20 million" insured via the ACA?
How Democrats might lose the ACA insta-repeal battle and win the war