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Joe Biden's Health Insurance Plan Would Fix the Individual Health Insurance System
IF the Democrats capture the White House, keep the House and take over the Senate, no matter who they elect as President, this Biden health care outline, not Medicare for all, will likely be the plan Democrats embrace in 2021 The Biden health care proposal directly takes on the big things that haven ' t worked in Obamacare. Here are the things that are most broken in Obamacare: The individual (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 20, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Obamacare is " Stable " at an Incredibly Unstable Place
The Democrats Want to Move Beyond Obamacare Because We Have No Other Choice   Before I start talking about the presidential candidates ' health care plans, let ' s review just exactly where we are with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). For the last few years I have made a number of points: Before Obamacare, and in the individual health insurance market, the middle class healthy enough to (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 15, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Obamacare is " Stable " at an Incredibly Unstable Place
The Democrats Want to Move Beyond Obamacare Because We Have No Other Choice Before I start talking about the presidential candidates ' health care plans, let ' s review just exactly where we are with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). For the last few years I have made a number of points: Before Obamacare, and in the individual health insurance market, the middle class healthy enough to qualify (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 15, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

There is Now No More Support for a Medicare For All Single-Payer Health Care Than There Was in 1977, or 1993, or 2009
Buy HMO Stocks ––They ' re a Bargain The more things change the more they stay the same. With many of the Democratic presidential candidates ' flirtation with Medicare for all, the topic is once again front and center going into the 2020 presidential campaign. Just like it was when Jimmy Carter ran on a Medicare for all platform in 1976 ––and it turned out there weren ' t the votes for it in 1977 (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 13, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Is the Drug Industry an Existential Threat to the Private Health Insurance Business?
At a time when many Democrats are calling for a single-payer health insurance system, are the drug companies inadvertently driving the system on a course to that end? Consider this. The longtime political firewall against a single-payer system has been the satisfaction consumers have had with their employer-sponsored health insurance. Most voters have had no interest in giving up their (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - January 16, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Is the Drug Industry an Existential Threat to the Private Health Insurance Business?
At a time when many Democrats are calling for a single-payer health insurance system, are the drug companies inadvertently driving the system on a course to that end? Consider this. The longtime political firewall against a single-payer system has been the satisfaction consumers have had with their employer-sponsored health insurance. Most voters have had no interest in giving up their (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - January 15, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Where Does The Health Insurance Reform Debate Go From Here?
See my post at Forbes (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - January 9, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

What Neither the Republicans Nor the Democrats Understand About Obamacare
The 2018 Elections Were Not About Obamacare--They Were About Health Insurance Security     The 2018 midterm elections weren ' t a tsunami for Democrats--more like a blue wave hitting a red wall.     Democrats are claiming the election vindicated Obamacare because they were successful in gaining control of the House of Representatives by criticizing losing Republicans for their votes to repeal (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - November 8, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

The Simple, Obvious, Time Tested Way to Reduce Drug Costs
I give the President great credit for shining his spotlight on the ridiculous place the U.S. finds itself over drug prices. They are way too high, the private market has proven incapable of dealing with it ––PBMs have only made the drug market more opaque, and the biggest drug purchaser in the world, the U.S. government, has been politically unwilling to deal with it. All while other (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - May 11, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

The CIGNA - Express Scripts Merger ––So Much for Price Transparency and Competition
CIGNA just announced that it will buy pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts for $67 billion. In December, CVS said it would buy Aetna for $69 billion. Already, UnitedHealth, through its Optum data technology and OptumRx pharmacy benefit manager subsidiaries, has detailed health care utilization information on over 115 million consumers, four out of five hospitals, 67,000 pharmacies, (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - March 8, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs