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It ' s easy to be critical of Obamacare.
But from the time The Affordable Care Act was passed until a new President and Congress have a chance to change things in 2017, America ' s governors haven ' t had the luxury of just complaining about it. They have had to govern.
Governor Kasich and his team have made big health care change a reality by collaborating with the key stakeholders in Ohio. On that (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
John Kasich's Ohio Health Care Record: Making Lemons Into Lemonade
It's easy to be critical of Obamacare.
But from the time The Affordable Care Act was passed until a new President and Congress have a chance to change things in 2017, America's governors haven't had the luxury of just complaining about it. They have had to govern.
Governor Kasich and his team have made big health care change a reality by collaborating with the key stakeholders in Ohio. On that (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Obamacare Hits 12.7 Million Enrollments ––But Only Grows 8.5%
Today the administration announced that 12.7 million people signed up for coverage in the Affordable Care Act ' s insurance exchanges.
Said the HealthCare.gov CEO, " We knocked the lights out this year. We did a great job. "
Let ' s take a closer look.
In 2015, the exchange enrollment totaled 11.7 million. By year-end 2015, that had shrunk to 9.1 million ––a 22% decrease. The administration has said (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 3, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Obamacare Hits 12.7 Million Enrollments––But Only Grows 8.5%
Today the administration announced that 12.7 million people signed up for coverage in the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges.
Said the HealthCare.gov CEO, "We knocked the lights out this year. We did a great job."
Let's take a closer look.
In 2015, the exchange enrollment totaled 11.7 million. By year-end 2015, that had shrunk to 9.1 million––a 22% decrease. The administration has said (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 3, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Why the Obamacare 2016 Open Enrollment Stalled: The Big Unwritten Story About Obamacare ––How Unaffordable It Is For the Working and Middle Class
Back on December 22nd when the President triumphantly announced 6 million enrollments on HealthCare.gov and the administration pointed to " unprecedented demand " on the exchanges, I was the skunk at the garden party arguing in the Washington Post that it was all just churn as existing customers were only trying to escape all of the big rate increases.
Well guess what? It was all churn.
The (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - January 31, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Why the Obamacare 2016 Open Enrollment Stalled: The Big Unwritten Story About Obamacare––How Unaffordable It Is For the Working and Middle Class
Back on December 22nd when the President triumphantly announced 6 million enrollments on HealthCare.gov and the administration pointed to "unprecedented demand" on the exchanges, I was the skunk at the garden party arguing in the Washington Post that it was all just churn as existing customers were only trying to escape all of the big rate increases.
Well guess what? It was all churn.
The (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - January 31, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
2016 Obamacare Outlook
One of the more Obamacare fluent reporters just emailed me a set of questions regarding the 2016 outlook for Obamacare.
I thought I would share my responses with you:
According to early CMS data, 38% of exchange enrollees are under age 35. Is the risk pool beginning to stabilize?
It's too soon to know if the pool is beginning to stabilize. First, the administration's announcement that 38% of (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - January 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
UnitedHealth Group Losing Big Money and Threatening to Leave the Obamacare Exchanges--Because the Obamacare Insurance Business Model Does Not Work
It's official. The Obamacare insurance company business model does not work.
UnitedHealth Group just announced they expect to lose $700 million in the Obamacare
exchanges and are seriously considering withdrawing from the program in
the coming year.
This morning, the Wall Street Journal reported just about everybody else is losing their shirts in Obamacare as well:
Several other big publicly (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - November 18, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Crocodile Tears Over the Failing Obamacare Co-Ops--The Canaries in the Obamacare Coal Mine
I can't believe what I've been hearing recently from Obamacare
defenders over the failing Obamacare co-ops--the most recent count has
eight of them going bust.
The biggest complaint seems to be that
those mean Republicans forced these co-ops out of business because of a
provision they included in the last budget.
Read my post at Forbes (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 25, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Flat Enrollment Estimates For 2016--Has the Obama Administration Given Up on Obamacare?
On Thursday, the Obama administration said they expect to have 10 million people enrolled on the Obamacare
insurance exchanges in 2016. They further said they expect to sign-up
only one in four of those still uninsured and eligible during the 2016
open enrollment scheduled to begin on November 1.
These are astonishing admissions.
In
2013 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 17, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Ohio Governor John Kasich's Medicaid Expansion: Successful Governance is Very Hard Work
Presidential candidate John Kasich (R-Ohio) has taken a lot
of criticism on the campaign trail for expanding Medicaid under
Obamacare. But if his Medicaid expansion isn ’t an extraordinary example
of successful conservative governance I don’t know what would be.
See My Post at Forbes (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 13, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Ohio Governor John Kasich's Medicaid Expansion: Successful Governance is Very Hard Work
Presidential candidate John Kasich (R-Ohio) has taken a lot
of criticism on the campaign trail for expanding Medicaid under
Obamacare. But if his Medicaid expansion isn’t an extraordinary example
of successful conservative governance I don’t know what would be.
See My Post at Forbes (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 13, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Has Obamacare Really Reduced The Uninsured By 16 Million And Continued To Show Strong Growth?
Recent reports have touted a significant drop in the number of
uninsured and generally credited Obamacare for it. And, other reports
have recently highlighted about 950,000 more people signing up for
Obamacare since the 2015 open enrollment closed but haven’t said
anything about the number of people who dropped their coverage during
the same period.
Many of these reports may be technically (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 16, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Health Insurer Merger Mania -- Muscle-Bound Competitors And A New Cold War In Health Care
It is doubtful that the dramatically escalating consolidation in both the health insurance industry and among hospitals and doctors will make our health care system either more efficient or more competitive.
This reminds me of the Cold War. Each side gets more powerful so that
the other side can’t come to dominate it. The two sides finally get so
big and powerful they reach a point of détente (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - July 26, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
California Senate Votes To Open Up Obamacare To 2.5 Million Illegal Residents
King V. Burwell Opponents Said Killing Subsidies Would Blow Up
Obamacare––Now They Want To Open Up Unsubsidized Care To Illegal
Californians
And consider this. Passage of the California legislation that has already cleared the Senate (SB 4) could be a real boon to the
business of health care delivery in California. California’s impressive
medical system could be the leader in international (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - July 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
