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Category Archives: National Health Policy
Revisiting the Land of the Individual Mandate
[This new commentary was just published by the Milbank Quarterly.] The years 2013 through 2016 were excruciating for the Massachusetts Health Connector. In 2013, the Connector was among the nation’s most troubled federal/state health insurance exchanges, as it endured an … Continue reading
Mad About States
[This column was just published on the website of the Milbank Quarterly.] A consistent theme in 2017 Republican Congressional efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the intent to empower the 50 states to use federal … Continue reading
Pray for the Dead and Fight like Hell for the Living.
[The Washington Post’s Health 202 Column offered a set of “eulogies” on the fate of the ACA’s individual mandate — the mandate penalty was reduced to zero by the Republican’s newly approved tax-cut legislation. I had the last word…] … … Continue reading
The Republican Tax Cut’s Silver Linings Playbook
[I’ve been super busy this fall and unable to keep up with writing about the ACA. I’m back in the saddle and here I go again. This commentary was just published on the Commonwealth Magazine website.] A CORE TENET of … Continue reading
Questions for New Single Payer Advocates
[This commentary was posted by the Milbank Quarterly this week.] Seeing, hearing, reading, and feeling the new grassroots ferment among progressive Americans for a single-payer health care system, my gut reaction is: I get it. As newly documented in Elizabeth … Continue reading
A Bipartisan “What’s Next” for U.S. Health Reform
[This past week, I was one of the co-authors of a consensus policy paper on short-term steps that would stabilize the ACA health insurance marketplaces and address some other urgent health policy priorities such as reauthorization of the Childrens Health … Continue reading
MayDay! The ACA Is Still Alive and Still in Danger
Today is May Day and the ACA is still alive. Donald Trump’s campaign boast that he would sign a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA/ObamaCare) on his inauguration day is long gone and forgotten. House Speaker Paul Ryan and … Continue reading
A Republican Path to ACA Reform
[This commentary, written by me and Dr. William Seligman of the Harvard Chan School, was published today on the Commonwealth Magazine website.] IF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP and Congressional Republicans were to decide that fixing rather than destroying the Affordable Care … Continue reading
Health and Taxes and the Values at Stake in the ACA Debate
[This commentary was published this week on the website of the Milbank Quarterly.] One of my favorite political scientists, Deborah Stone, wrote that much of the policy process involves debates about values masquerading as debates about numbers and facts.1 Although … Continue reading
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