Olives vs. Grapes: A Messy Fight over ACA
Bertaut recommends you discuss the ACA over fine dining!
Tag: healthcare.gov
Reality Check: What’s Happening Today to the Healthcare Law?
There is a lot of doom and gloom out there right now about what is going to happen to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under a Republican president with a Republican majority in Congress. So, what is really happening, and what can you expect?
Instability = Uncertainty = Expense: Health Insurance marketplaces need immediate attention
One thing you learn if you work around insurance for a while is that instability and unpredictability drive everybody’s costs up. A lot. And it turns out it doesn’t matter if that’s car insurance, homeowners insurance, life insurance or health insurance.
The Federal Role in Benefit Design in Individual Health Insurance: Are You Better Off?
Note from Mike: I’m sifting through the information coming out about the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare and healthcare in a Trump presidency. I’ll be back soon to offer my take on it, but in the meantime, see this Q&A on what Blue Cross is doing right now.
In my last blog post, I gave details about how much rates for individual customers’ health insurance are going up next year and why. I promised do a future blog about not just how much premiums cost, but how much financial protection the federally-designed products for 2017 give the average customer. This may get a bit wonky, so please bear with me as you go through.
The Plain and Ugly Truth about Rate Increases
How the Healthcare Law Has Changed the Individual Health Insurance Marketplace
In January 2010, just a few months before healthcare reform law passed, I got a study by a national actuarial firm that measured the impact of state regulations on health insurance plan pricing. This study showed WIDE variation in the definition of an individual health insurance policy, and how plans were priced, from state to state.