Yesterday I had an article at The Federalist titled “The Eight Biggest Falsehoods in Obama’s Rose Garden Speech.” Today I want to look at another of President Obama’s claims in that speech, one that isn’t a falsehood but does qualify ...
Uh-oh. Don’t look now, but some Democrats are beginning to call for relief from ObamaCare’s individual mandate. The latest is Colorado’s Jared Polis: Health insurance rates are so high in Colorado’s mountain resort areas that U.S. Rep. Jared Polis plans to ...
I managed to create an account at the Connecticut ObamaCare exchange, Access Health CT. Unfortunately I had to give my exact age, so I couldn’t compare policies for a 27-year-old as I usually do. So, let’s just say we’ll be ...
I recently posted a comment at John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog in response to a remark from Don McCanne. Usually I don’t make blog comments the subject of my own blog posts, but Dr. McCanne is a Senior Health Policy ...
With pieces like this in the New York Times, the disaster that is the roll out of the ObamaCare exchanges continues. Here’s a few more bits: 1. Bluegrass Bad News? According to USA Today, the Kentucky ObamaCare exchange, Kynect, had ...
By now you are surely aware of what a disaster the roll out of the ObamaCare exchange websites has been. When MSNBC runs out of patience when trying to log in, Ezra Klein says the website is terrible, and USAToday calls it a ...
Supporters of ObamaCare have come up with some clever ways of making the premiums on the ObamaCare exchanges look quite good. For example, one common refrain found in this HHS report was repeated endlessly by the media: “Premiums before tax ...
Well, I finally managed to create an account at the Washington, D.C. health insurance exchange known as “DC Health Link.” And it worked! Well, sort of. When I used the “Browse plans without completing an application” option and filled out ...
As I noted yesterday in my post on the Oregon exchange, I don’t take very seriously the argument that “Yes, prices are higher on the ObamaCare exchanges but the insurance comes with more benefits.” First, to anyone who makes that ...
Colorado’s exchange, Connect For Health Colorado, has a function that allows you to shop for policies without first setting up an account. To see it, go here and then select “Find a Plan.” I gave it a test run by ...
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