Why Healthcare.gov Broke: Two Competing Story Lines
Inside the Obama administration, political considerations slowed development of the health care exchanges. Or was it a blanket of Republican opposition around the country?
Browsing Tag
Obamacare
113 posts
Was Your Health Policy Canceled? What We Do and Don’t Know
Hundreds of thousands of individual policyholders, at minimum, will have to find new plans as insurers respond to new coverage requirements under Obamacare. But is that necessarily bad?
What’s Wrong With Healthcare.gov’s Price Estimator?
You may end up paying hundreds of dollars more per year than you budgeted for.
Healthcare.gov’s Users Speak Out: ‘Clean This Mess Up’
Health and Human Services asked for comments about its website. It got them by the hundreds. Consumers and insurance agents say they were stymied, and one applicant said he and his wife were wrongly listed as incarcerated—then denied.
The Affordable Care Act’s Most Important Date Is Not What You Think It Is
Forgotten amid the controversial health exchange rollout: The deep impact of last year’s Supreme Court ruling letting states opt out of expanding Medicaid.
Is Healthcare.gov the Future? We Ask a Health Futurist
“The metaphor is the Wright Brothers, not the Indianapolis 500,” says Ian Morrison. “Let’s just get this sucker up in the air before we declare that flying is a bad idea.”
Health Care Rollout: The View From Kansas
Q&A with Sandy Praeger, a Republican insurance commissioner in a state that’s refused to go along with the Affordable Care Act.
A Month in to Healthcare.gov, Real-Life Winners and Losers
Today marks one month since the disastrous start of Healthcare.gov, and we take a look at who's winning and losing in real life because of it.
