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The Preconditions Necessary for a Bipartisan Solution to Obamacare
It is now clear that Republicans cannot unilaterally tackle Obamcare. But, I will suggest, it is also clear that both Republicans and Democrats can ' t even begin to have conversations about fixing the health law until they can agree on broader principles. See my op-ed at CNBC.com. (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - September 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

How Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Health Committee Could Agree to Shore Up the Obamacare Markets
When Congress returns in September, Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and ranking member Patty Murray (D-WA) will attempt to find a way to at least temporarily shore up the Obamacare individual health insurance markets. First, they will try to guarantee the low-income cost sharing reduction (CSR) subsidies for at least a year in order to give participating insurers the (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

September: A Full Plate for Congress and Enormous Uncertainty for the Obamacare Exchanges
My comments on CNBC this morning. (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

The Number of People in the Off-Exchange Individual Health Insurance Market Plunged 29% in the Last Year
Is the individual health insurance market stable? With Trump threatening to make things worse in the individual health insurance market, was it stable even before he made his threats? See my op-ed in the National Review. (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 3, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Strike Three! A Statesman and Two Adults ––Republicans Fail to " Repeal and Replace " Obamacare
The latest attempt by Senate Republicans to " repeal and replace " Obamacare ––the “skinny” plan––failed early this morning on a vote of 49-51. The deciding vote came from John McCain (AZ), joined by Republican Senators Collins (ME) and Murkowski (AK). Trying to pass the “skinny” bill was a fool’s errand. How did McConnell think he was going to do any bet ter bringing 240 House Republicans— (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - July 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Strike Two ––The Republican Obamacare " Repeal and Replace " Fiasco
Three strikes and you ' re out. On Monday, Senate Republicans approved proceeding to debate on " repealing and replacing " Obamacare by a vote of 50-50-1, with Vice President Mike Pence casting the deciding vote. Strike One Yesterday, Senate Republicans failed to approve the bill they had been working on for over a month, which included the Cruz amendment that would have bifurcated the individual (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - July 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

The Post-Republican Obamacare Market Will Be " Stable " and Very Profitable for Health Insurers
Predictions that the individual health insurance market will now implode are misplaced. First, in the wake of the Republican collapse of efforts to replace Obamacare, Medicaid will continue on unaffected. The Obama Medicaid expansion is fully funded for years to come. The nineteen states that did not take the expansion will continue to be on the outside looking in as their taxpayers continue to (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - July 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Senate Republican Obamacare " Repeal and Replace " Bill Dead ––Good Riddance To An Awful Public Policy Proposal
The Senate Republican Obamacare " repeal and replace " legislation ––just like the House version––was an awful bill. Individual health insurance costs wouldn ' t have gone down they would have gone up and both bills would have screwed a lot of low-income people. The latest Cruz amendment bifurcating the market with the sick in one place and the healthy in another was the most cynical kind of public (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - July 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

What's Really Behind the Cruz Amendment to the Republican Senate Plan to Replace Obamacare?
A Cunning Strategy to Back Door Risk Pools and Market Segmentation Ted Cruz has offered an amendment —since included in the latest Republican Senate draft—that would enable health insurance plans to offer stripped down coverage outside the current Obamacare compliant individual market. These new plans would be eligible for the income based premium subsidies. Anytime spent covered by them would (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - July 13, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

The Senate Republican Obamacare Repeal and Replace Bill Will Not Reduce the Cost of Health Insurance
At the core of Republican objectives for the " repealing and replacing " of Obamacare is bringing down the cost of health insurance ––not just the premiums but the out-of-pocket costs people pay as well. If implemented, the Senate Republican bill may actually end up increasing costs compared to Obamacare. Clearly, if Republicans cut $408 billion in current tax credits and other insurance (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - June 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Here's Who Gets the Blame If Obamacare Fails (Hint It's Not Obama)
With Obamacare ' s individual health insurance market struggling, the debate has shifted to who takes the blame if it fails.   Supporters of the law are willing to admit that it is failing but that it ' s Trump ' s fault.   Trump ' s constant undermining of the ACA is giving his opponents ammunition in the blame game.     See my op-ed at CNBC.com     (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - May 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

How ObamaCare Could Become ZombieCare
The individual health insurance market is becoming more unstable as last year ' s rate increases are beginning to take their toll on the health of the risk pools ––particularly among the almost half of the consumers in the market that are not eligible for subsidies. The Trump administration is making an already bad situation worse. President Trump is wrong when he says the system will suddenly " (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - May 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs