Recession, Not Obamacare, To Thank for Lower 2013 Health Costs
In his 2013 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama proclaimed that, “Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs” in the United States. “And the...
View ArticleHere’s How Investors Are Making Money Off Obamacare
Because the Affordable Care Act was designed as build-on to the existing system, filling in the gaps left by Medicare and Medicaid to expand health care coverage to America’s millions of uninsured,...
View ArticleObamacare ‘Anonymous Shopper’ Function Wasn’t Broken After All
Another kink in the evolving narrative of the Affordable Care Act came Friday in the form of official government documents released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — the branch of...
View ArticleHealthCare.gov May Be Cured But Bugs Still Plague Applicants
The ghosts of Obamacare past are not going away because the administration says that HealthCare.gov is up and running. Instead, people are endeavoring to understand what went wrong, and the...
View ArticleHealthcare.gov Is Still Causing Drama for Obama
The back end of Obamacare is not winning friends and influencing enrollees — and it may not be translating enrollment to coverage, either. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel was asked on Fox News Sunday about the...
View ArticleA New Year, The Same Obamacare Worries
The new year places the Affordable Care Act once again in the cross hairs of the national debate; 2014 is an election year, meaning the political battered Obama administration will have to ramp up its...
View ArticleHere’s Evidence Obamacare Isn’t Lowering Healthcare Costs
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Affordable Care Act — known colloquially as Obamacare — will not solve rising health insurance costs. Theoretically, it would seem that ensuring more...
View ArticleCMS Report: Recession Drove Lower Healthcare Spending
A report on 2012 healthcare spending shows that for the fourth consecutive year, health-related spending in the U.S. exhibited slow growth. Total expenditures rose by 3.7 percent, amounting to $2.8...
View ArticleObamacare and the 3Rs: When Healthy Becomes Unprofitable
Source: https://www.healthcare.gov/ Obamacare creates a new profile of insured. Consumers can no longer be denied because of a pre-existing condition, and having coverage is mandated by law. Before...
View ArticleObamacare Deadline Day Sees 4-Hour Healthcare.gov Blackout
Source: Thinkstock Monday is the final day of the six-month enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act-created insurance marketplaces and, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
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