Healthcare

Republican Senators appear to have forgotten their own success. Provisions of the bills to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act offered by House and Senate Republican leadership both include a “continuous coverage” provision. These rules would require…

While the future of legislative health care reform is looking uncertain, many things continue to develop on the administrative front. Probably the biggest of these is the letter, sent from HHS to states this week, inviting…

Of the many peculiar incentives that would be generated by the House Republicans’ proposed ACA replacement, one that hasn’t drawn much attention yet is the incentive for firms with low- and…

On its first day, the new administration issued an executive order that seemed to make ominous noises about the Affordable Care Act. Some people freaked out (note the absurd headline on the latter). Hey, I don’t want…

Via David Leonhardt, Nick Bagley appears to suggest that Congress could repeal the individual responsibility payment (aka, “the mandate”) in the affordable care act without collapsing the act. The problem, again, is adverse selection: if insurers must cover you (“guaranteed issue”), and…

Economist Robert Frank writes in this morning’s New York Times:

Republicans have promised to replace Obamacare with something better. Everyone, Mr. Trump included…