Quote: The policy trap is nonpartisan
Austin Frakt December 9, 2013
President Barack Obama and his party have suffered in public-opinion polls amid the health site’s troubled rollout and as some five million people lost existing
President Barack Obama and his party have suffered in public-opinion polls amid the health site’s troubled rollout and as some five million people lost existing
Health plans in competition are unlikely to attract the same types of consumers. Some plans will be more attractive to relatively sicker people, thereby experiencing
Long read in WaPo this weekend on drug choices: The two drugs have been declared equivalently miraculous. Tested side by side in six major trials,
This week’s episode of Healthcare Triage is an explanation of the fiscal workings of Obamacare. We’ve done this on the blog, but now you have
[I]n 2017, you can also rest assured that the health care industry would go all-out to protect Obamacare from repeal. Insurers like WellPoint, Molina, UnitedHealth,
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Law. A new study about graphic warning labels on cigarette packages
A common argument is that we need the Affordable Care Act to address the uncompensated care problem. Maybe so, but it’s pretty clear from the
By now, the potential consequences of too few young and healthy individuals participating in the new insurance marketplaces are well known. As Ross Douthat described, [T]he law
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Laws in about a dozen states that require radiologists to notify patients if they have dense breast tissue have raised questions about the utilization of
Yesterday the CBO dropped a whole bunch of wonk candy in the form of a report on options for reducing the deficit over the next
Since reading Kevin Drum’s post on “doc shock” — the issue of narrow networks for exchange plans leading people to “lose their doctor” — there’s something I