Health Tips

See my interview today at CNBC.

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.

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

My comments on CNBC this morning.

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.

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 better bringing 240 House Republicans�

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

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

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

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. Anytime spent covered by them would be considered a break in service and subject the consumer to the