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Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers

Posted by Admin | 9:09 PM
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"

Posted by Admin | 8:08 AM
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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The Obamacare Rollout: The Administration Needs a Plan B––Now!

Posted by Admin | 4:58 AM
It is now becoming clear that the Obama administration will not have Health.care.gov fixed by December 1 so hundreds of thousands, or perhap...
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The Obamacare Rollout––Week Five

Posted by Admin | 7:38 AM
Enrollments continue to trickle in. Health plans, with the kind of market share that would have to sign-up 100,000 to 200,000 people for the...
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The Commitment to Fix Obamacare's Computer Systems By December 1––Because It Can Be Done By Then or Because It Has To Be Done By Then?

Posted by Admin | 2:50 PM
The good news is that it appears the adults are finally in charge of healthcare.gov. This week, the administration put a seasoned and truste...
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Just What Is an 834 Transaction? Why Is It Holding Up Obamacare? How Long Will This Take to Fix?

Posted by Admin | 8:32 PM
You have probably already heard that Obamacare has as many backroom problems as problems with the front end consumer web enrollment portal. ...
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"Healthcare.gov is in de facto shutdown"

Posted by Admin | 12:08 PM
Read my conversation with Ezra Klein today on the Washington Post WONKBLOG
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The Obamacare Federal Health Insurance Exchanges––Week Three Status Report

Posted by Admin | 8:53 PM
I will be happy to have the Obama Administration do these status reports anytime they would like to takeover from me. If I were in the White...
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For Those of You Who Yesterday Didn't Believe My Federal Exchange Enrollment Estimates and Reports of Backroom Problems...

Posted by Admin | 7:17 AM
You need to see today's Wall Street Journal front-page story, "Health Website Woes Widen as Insurers Get Wrong Data." Here...
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Week Two of the Obamacare Federal Health Insurance Exchange Rollout––No Improvement

Posted by Admin | 7:13 AM
There was no progress for the new federal health insurance exchange's information technology and enrollment challenges in its second wee...
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"Obamacare is a bit like the astronaut on top of the rocket"

Posted by Admin | 10:28 AM
Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein and I spoke about the Obamacare rollout yesterday afternoon. Here is his column from today's Washin...
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How Many People Have Signed Up For Health Insurance on the Federal Health Insurance Exchanges?

Posted by Admin | 11:41 AM
Based upon my survey of a large number of health plans accounting for substantial market share in the 36 states the federal insurance exchan...
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What Health Insurance Company Information Technology Executives Were Saying About the Obamacare Exchanges Last February

Posted by Admin | 12:45 PM
Were there signs the Obama administration was headed for trouble getting the insurance exchanges ready for October 1, 2014? Last March, I di...
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Why the Federal Health Insurance Exchange and So Many State Exchanges Are Not Working

Posted by Admin | 7:26 AM
We may be getting a better idea why the federal exchange and so many state exchanges aren't working. An article in Saturday's Baltim...
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The Affordable Health Care Act's Launch On October 1st––So How Did it Go?

Posted by Admin | 11:45 AM
Unavoidably, that will be the big question come Tuesday. But there will be much more to it than that. A 180-Day Open Enrollment––Not a One-D...
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Benefit Shock? Consumers Will Be Surrpised By What They Find on the New "Obamacare" Health Insurance Exchanges

Posted by Admin | 12:29 PM
Will we have rate shock? It looks to me like consumers will have a choice when they get to look at the health plans available on the new ...
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So If the Maryland Health Insurance Rates Are So Cheap Why Did I Get This Postcard From Maryland Blue Cross?

Posted by Admin | 2:38 PM
That's what I wondered when I got this postcard; presumably sent to lots of people who live in Maryland: In it, (click on card to enlarg...
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People Who Haven't Filed a Tax Return to Get Unverified Health Insurance Exchange Subsidies

Posted by Admin | 3:11 PM
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Marilyn Tavenner, is out with a "Myths vs. Fact" clarification memo regarding t...
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Health Insurance Exchange Subsidies Will Be Granted on the Honor System!––Is There Something Wrong With "ObamaCare's" Federal Data Hub?

Posted by Admin | 7:14 PM
Come October millions of people will be applying for tens of billions of dollars in federal health insurance premium subsidies on the honor ...
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Will the Affordable Care Act's ("ObamaCare") Federal Health Insurance Exchanges Be Ready On Time? Finally the Facts!

Posted by Admin | 8:55 AM
After months of speculation on just where the Obama administration is toward the development of the new health insurance exchanges, the Gove...
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