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Fixing the Affordable Care Act: Part 3 — Simplify and expand the insurance exchanges
I like the state health insurance exchange concept. It offers a necessary corrective to our failed employer/government-dominated group insurance system by giving American consumers the direct power to hold their insurers’ feet to the fire to deliver value. Letting...
Fixing the Affordable Care Act: Part 2 – Repeal and replace the individual mandate
Metaphorically (if Scatologically) Speaking It has been said that Michelangelo’s task of creating his magnificent “David” was actually quite simple. Just take a huge block of marble and chip away the parts that don’t look like David. In fixing the Affordable Care Act,...
Fixing the Affordable Care Act: Part 1 – What we know, what we need
There are two things the newly ascendant House Republicans need to know about fixing the new health reform law. First, their mantra of “repeal and replace” (besides being moot) ignores the fact that, buried in the manure pile of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a real...