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" Republicans Are Being Awfullly Naive " About the Transition Period in " Repeal and Replace "
" To have an orderly [ " Repeal and Replace " ] transition, I think Republicans need to reimplement the risk corridors by February or March. That is the only chance they have. I don ' t think there is a single Republican member of Congress who has thought about this. I am reading all of these quotes and they ' re completely blind to the fiasco on the individual market that they ' re about to create. " Read (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - November 30, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Obamacare Repeal, Transition, and Replace: The Republicans Have a Tiger By the Tail
I wouldn ' t be surprised to see Obamacare more fixed than replaced before this is over. I ' m not sure Republicans have really come to grips with the daunting task they face for both replacing Obamacare and managing through what will certainly be a problematic transition. See my post at Forbes (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - November 27, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Will It Take a Crisis to Replace Obamacare?
My interview this morning with Steve Inskeep on NPR ' s Morning Edition.   We discussed repeal and replace, Republican proposals for replacement, the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republicans on health insurance reform, and the outlook for what is likely to happen. (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - November 16, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

It Isn't News That Trump Wants to Keep the Pre-Existing Condition Reforms----He Said So in February
Far from a news scoop, Donald Trump first said that he would preserve consumer protections against health insurance pre-existing conditions last February. See my post at Forbes (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - November 11, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

" Now What Do We Do? " Trumpcare?
Of course, " Now what do we do, " is the famous line from Robert Redford ' s character in The Candidate, stunned by his victory and confused about what to do next. But it doesn ' t really apply here. A few thoughts as all of this sinks in: Some will tell you the Republicans are unprepared for repeal and replace. Wrong. There is a plan. Don ' t let anyone tell you there is not. The plan was written (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - November 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Obamacare: Dead Law Walking!
There is no doubt that Obamacare is dead. The only question is just exactly how Republicans will get rid of it. While Republicans have the votes they will need in the House, Republicans will not have the 60-vote Senate supermajority necessary to get rid of all of it. Therefore, they will use their slim Senate majority and Senate budget reconciliation rules. It takes just 51 Senators to make (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - November 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

The Good and the Bad of Obamacare
My comments on CNBC today. In this interview, I mentioned the information a broker in Naples Florida sent me regarding some of their customers buying Obamacare compliant individual health insurance. Here are the broker ' s 2017 examples: Family of four, mom and dad age 40, two kids. Lowest Bronze annual premium $13,176. Deductible $7,150 single, $14,300 family. Income $130,000. Not eligible for (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - October 26, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Will the Administration's Making Good on Billions of Dollars Due the Health Plans Solve Obamacare's Exchange Problems?
Amy Goldstein at the Washington Post is out with a story reporting that the Obama administration is looking to use an obscure federal law to pay billions of dollars in Obamacare risk corridor liabilities to participating insurance companies. You might recall that the administration was only able to pay 12.5% of what insurers were owed for 2014 under the reinsurance program designed to protect (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - September 28, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Detailed Obamacare Blue Cross Enrollment--About Half the Enrollment Doesn't Get a Subsidy!
I was struck by this comment coming from one of Obamacare ' s most vocal supporters, Vox ' s Sarah Kliff: Obamacare ' s insurance expansion is on the path to looking like other safety net programs we know, offering limited services to a predominantly low-income population. She might be right about Obamacare devolving into a low-income style safety net program. But she couldn ' t be more wrong about the (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - September 5, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Big Obamacare Rate Increases Don't Reflect What People Actually Pay ––Wrong!
How many people in the individual health insurance market don ' t get a subsidy to pay for their health insurance or wouldn ' t be eligible for one it they did buy it? Here is what an Obama administration spokesperson said yesterday about all of the big 2017 Obamacare rate increases. " Headline rate increases do not reflect what consumers actually pay, " said Kathryn Martin, acting assistant (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 24, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

" The Blues Have Deep Reserves and They'll Be Here Long After We're Gone " --Here's How It Really Works
The denials about just how bad the Obmacare exchange situation is keep piling up. Maybe the most uniformed and naive was this comment in the Dallas Morning News: " The Blues have deep, deep reserves, and they ' ll be here long after we ' re gone, " [Sabrina] Collette [a research professor at Georgetown University], said. " They ' re probably calculating they can ride out this rocky time and emerge with a (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 20, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Latest Proposals to Fix Obamacare Come Up Way Short--The Insurance Industry Trade Association Joins the List of Deniers
In my last couple of posts, I have lamented the degree to which prominent Obamacare supporters have been denial about the trouble The Affordable Care Act exchanges are in. Now we can add the insurance industry trade association, AHIP, to the list. With the Obamacare exchange exits from the publicly-traded health plans, the not-for-profit Blue Cross and regional HMOs now form the backbone of the (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 17, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Obamacare on Life Support?
My comments on CNBC today. (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 16, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

" Those Whining Obamacare Insurers "
Affordable Care Act defenders need to understand that if we don ' t quickly move on to a robust conversation about how to fundamentally make the individual health insurance market viable many of the remaining often not-for-profit plans will have to walk away from the Obamacare exchanges. See my post at Forbes (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 16, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Obamacare Is Failing. And There Is Only One Way To Fix It
See my op-ed at CNBC And my earlier post on the steps necessary to make Obamacare viable (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs