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Regular readers may recall the Oregon health insurance Exchange as a spectacular failure: " Things haven't gone so well in Orego...

Here's something you don't see every day: " Marijuana users, who can now buy weed without fear of arrest in some U.S. states...

Now that SCOTUS has pretty much locked in The ObamaTax, it may be helpful to know what's in store for us in the (not so distant) futu...

■ Death. Taxes. Health Insurance. New ObamaTax forms are soon to be on their way (most likely): " If the Internal Revenue Service (I...

David Williams graciously responds to my take of his WSJ LTCi review: " So I revise my view: long term care insurance has a role to p...

Well, that didn't take long: " Obamacare Ruling May Have Just Killed State-Based Exchanges " Indeed. Why would a state - a...

Words mean nothing: " [T]he Supreme Court on Thursday upheld ObamaCare subsidies in states that did not set up their own health care...

■ Last month, we mentioned some of the very positive results that would arise from a Plaintiff's victory in King v Burntwell. Today,...

Our on-going Stupid Carrier Tricks series is generally over-represented, so it's nice to be able to add one on the positive side. Med...

In Part 1 , we took a detailed look at a recent WSJ piece on Long Term Care insurance and " narrow framers ." Our friend David...

Last month, we again noted that CO-OP's ( Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans ) were in financial trouble: " [O]nly one Co-op, ...

Our good friend David Williams has written a blistering review of a recent WSJ article on why people aren't buying Long Term Care in...

Well, how else to explain this: " A new producer service fee arrangement introduced by Aetna looks to eliminate broker commissions ...

So, Medical Mutual of Ohio sent me a new Broker Agreement form (essentially the contract that allows me to sell their products and recei...

Boston Health News blogger Tinker Ready hosts this week's roundup of of wonky posts, with an emphasis on the upcoming King/Burwell SCO...

■ Who says crime doesn't pay? Oh, I guess that would be " Tracie Yvette Clay, 46, chief executive of N.C. Behavioral Health and C...

Well, it used to be a dog-eat-dog world out there, but lately the prevailing metaphor would seem to be big fish eating smaller ones. The...

No one yet knows how SCOTUS will rule in King v Burntwell, but that hasn't stopped the doomsayers from claiming that a gazillion peop...

Bruce Jenner may be the celebrity-du-jour of the transgender set, but he's certainly not the only member of it. While he and his ext...