The Full Cost of a Public Option, Part 3 | The End of The World
Part 3: The End of the Healthcare World as We Know It
And Mike doesn’t feel fine. Read more
Category: ACA and Policy
The Full Cost of a Public Option, Part 2 | Proposed Changes
Two weeks ago in Straight Talk, I gave you the background of the Individual health insurance marketplace. As you recall, it began in the United States in 2013 when the federal government introduced Healthcare.gov
Louisiana Healthcare Opportunities: The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
Can you remember your first credit card? Oh my. My memory of that is strikingly clear! It was April 1984 (yep, I’m old) and I was a senior at LSU, when a credit card from JC Penney’s just showed up in my mailbox at the student union.
The Full Cost of a Public Option | The Individual Health Insurance Marketplace
Part 1: Background
Since early in 2013, American citizens who don’t get an offer of affordable health insurance through work (that’s about 10% of working adults) have had another significant coverage option.
No Reward for Loyalty | Computing Insurance Rates in an ACA Age
Mike originally wrote and published this piece in 2015. Blue Cross has gotten similar messages in the years since, so he decided to go back and see if his answer still stands. He’s added more details in this post, but the crux of his answer is the same. Read more
The “Buggy Whip” Solution to Surprise Billing
Years ago, I saw a wonderful movie called “Other People’s Money.” If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend you do, especially the monologues in the last 20 minutes of the film. Really first-class lessons in economics and capitalism encoded into a movie.
At one point in the movie, a merger and acquisition specialist (played by Danny DeVito) uses this (paraphrased) example to explain how technology changes our lives: Read more