Health Tips

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.

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

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 "

Will the Republicans Follow Through on Their Promise to Repeal Obamacare?
Yes.

You have probably been reading press stories that bring into question whether or not Republicans will actually keep their campaign promise to "repeal" the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In fact, there is much discussion going on among Congressional Republicans about repealing key funding elements of the ACA as part of a

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