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Three Downsides to Commercial Health Insurer Consolidation

Writing in The Wall Street Journal , Scott Gottlieb argues that the Aetna-Humana and the Anthem-Cigna combinations are evidence of waning in...

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Update: A Health Reform Lesson

The 1967 Corvair. A non-PHB version Long ago, when the Population Health Blog was courting the future PHB spouse, our unspoken understanding...

Rising Healthcare Costs: Delayed or Defeated?

Ready, set...... According to this just-published New England Journal article , analysts are still waiting for the twin forces of 1) an imp...

Credble Numbers on Obamacare: And Why is the 16.3% Prevalence of Persons Without Health Insurance Good News?

The signed Affordable Care Act We finally have some credible numbers on what's happened to insurance enrollment under Obamacare. The pap...

A Path Toward Further Health Reform Is Lined With the IRS?

As attention has shifted to phantom IRS emails, misbehaving Iraqis and our newfound national awareness of soccer's off-side rule, it...

Looking Ahead to the Second Enrollment Wave of Obamacare This Fall

Big or small? The latest just-published edition of Health Affairs has a sobering reminder written by Tricia Brooks (" Open Enrollment,...

What the Obamacare Health Insurance Exchanges Can - and Can't - Do

It looked so easy, didn't it? So says Massachusetts Connector architect John Kingsdale . Writing in the prestigious New England Journa...

The State of the Union is Over. Advice on What's Next for Obamacare

When it comes to assessing or "monetizing" the possibility of a bad future event, the insurance-minded Disease Management Care Blo...

The Behavioral Economics Behind the Individual Mandate

Thanks to analyses like these , the Disease Management Care Blog is coming down with a tiresome case of individual mandatosis complicated b...

What Is the Plan B for Healthcare.gov's IT Problems

While Obamacare skeptics have glommed onto this government document for all the usual reasons of partisan advantage, the Disease Managemen...

One Proposed Measure of Obamacare Success: Drop-Outs from the Bronze and Silver Plans

Quick: if you had to chose a limited number of measures to gauge success of the Affordable Care Act, what would you choose? Would it be the...

A Runaway Steetcar Named Contraception Mandate

Here's comes the contraception mandate! Consider the classic "trolley car" thought experiment : There is a runaway trolley bar...

Twelve Health Care Predictions for 2014

While the Disease Management Care Blog eschewed forecasting for 2013, it has decided to reverse course and inaugurate the 2014 blogging seas...

The Looming Credibility Trap of Obamacare?

While the young Disease Management Care Blog was first introduced to the concept of the " credibility gap " by Lyndon Johnson'...

The Oval Office Tone At the Top and the Temptation for Consumers to Lie About Income on the Health Insurance Exchanges

According to this CNN article , it's naïve for the Disease Management Care Blog to expect U.S. Presidents to never lie. From time to tim...

Stuff Their Mouths with Gold

The Disease Management Care Blog uncovered this confidential memo, presumably authored by a health insurance CEO to the company's senior...

The Magnificent Carnac Again Speaks to Health Care Reform!

Visitated once again by the astral, magnificent, all-knowing and soothsaying Carnac, the Disease Management Care Blog has divined his answ...

The Dreaded Strike Three for Obamacare: Corrupted Exchange Data and Inaccurate Insurance Policies

While the prescient Disease Management Care Blog was among the earliest to identify the threat of an Obamacare-induced insurance "death...

The President Says You Should Ignore This Health Wonk Review

Welcome to this October 2014 edition of the Health Wonk Review, hosted by your Disease Management Care Blog. The Review is a sampling of the...

The Progressives' Point of View When It Comes to Health Reform

While the Disease Management Care Blog tries to be an equal opportunity cynic and generally sides with policy underdogs and lost causes, it ...

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