Category: Government Programs

According to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll, which asks Americans about healthcare topics each month, support for Medicare-for-all, which we’ve called “single–payer healthcare” in these pages, has narrowed in recent months. In a poll conducted Oct. 3 – 8, 2019, 51% of those polled said they favor a national health plan and 47% opposed. That’s a 5% drop since the beginning of the year.

It seems Americans are starting to think similarly to me – single-payer healthcare will narrow our choices when it comes to healthcare. Read more

A new rule about HRAs could change how small employers fund health insurance

The numbers in Louisiana are frankly not too good: only 20% of employers with fewer than 10 employees offer their employees a group health plan.

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Congratulations! You have managed to hang in through two parts of a rather elaborate series in which I’m trying to show what could happen if courts uphold the current court decision in Texas v U.S. declaring the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.
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In my last installment of Straight Talk, I started to give you some real-world details about what would happen if the Affordable Care Act, recently determined to be unconstitutional entirely by a federal district court judge in Texas, actually ended.
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PART 1: Your Health Insurance Benefits and Protections

I spend a ton of time out in public, doing presentations, speeches, interviews and compliance seminars and I get bombarded with questions about the healthcare topic du jour.
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I’ve written a three-part series (part 1, part 2, part 3) explaining the origins of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and issues that have arisen, leading up to the currently pending lawsuit to do away with the ACA.

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