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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Happy Blogiversary!

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Happy Blogiversary! InsureBlog turns 11 years old today. I still can't believe my good fortune to have such outstanding co-bloggers, ...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Intriguing Think Tank Trick

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Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute , has an intriguing ObamaTax replacement proposal. As Allison Bell reports , it...

Celebrating a Decade of Wonkery

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Co-founder Joe Paduda hosts this week's 10th Anniversary edition of the Health Wonk Review, and it's a doozy: From the opening sal...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

A little birdie tells me...

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In a mandatory meeting this morning, agents who represent Blue Cross of North Carolina learned that, as of April 1, they will receive zer...

Gee, Thanks CMS

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So, get this in email from CMS: " With the 2015 tax season underway, CMS has made the Health Coverage Tax Tool available to help co...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Underwriting 1201: Different Worlds

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I've been working on a really interesting case (well, cases, but one client), and the way it's shaking out offers a rare but wond...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Unmitigated Disaster (Easily Predicted)

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As we noted last month, despite all the hoopla and glowing press, this year's Open Enrollment season was shaping up to be a dismal fail...

It's all very incestuous: AHIP+AFL+ ACA

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Please bear with me here as I attempt to connect some very interesting - if disturbing - dots. As regular readers know, AHIP (the health ...
Monday, January 25, 2016

CO-OP Lifeline?

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We've written extensively about CO-OPs (most recently here ); I've actually been a fan of the model all along. The major problem...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Ted Cruz Lies

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We all remember this promise: So it's surprising that Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz would make the obviously and demonstrabl...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Life Insurance FUNdamentals

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Over at Forbes, Tim Maurer has a very interesting and helpful compendium of useful life insurance information and principles. One, howeve...

Kudos to Us (Again)

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It's only been a few months since we were named one of the Top Men's Health Blogs , and now the Milken Institute School of Public...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Snowy Wednesday Linkfest

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■ As we've long noted (most recently here ), 404Care.gov security is actually an exercise in kabuki theater. Need more proof? Well: ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

UHC vs ACA: Winning!

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As we've previously noted , United Healthcare is the 800# gorilla in the Federal Marketplace ("Exchange") room. While this ...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice . . .

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One of the reasons Bernie Sanders’ sun is rising - and Hillary Clinton’s is setting – is their difference over government-paid generic med...

Getting serious with Tar Heel State's BX

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Last week, we reported that Blue Cross of North Carolina was in quite the pickle, what with messing up plan selections and effective dates...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Health Wonk Review: Happy New Year! edition

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Welcome, friends, to 2016-style health care wonkery. Later this month, we'll be celebrating our 11th anniversary here at IB; it's...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

O'Care in Real Life

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So, one of my small group clients just lost the last person on his group plan. It had gotten so expensive that no one could really afford...

Dis-Kynected

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As we reported last month, newly-elected Blue Grass State Governor Matt Bevin announced that he'd be pulling the plug on its legall...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The MVNHS© Strikes Back

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Emphasis on "strikes:" " Tens of thousands of junior doctors, a term that covers medical professionals with as much as a d...
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