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Take A Number: Would Long Wait Times In US Healthcare Be Acceptable?
With all the talk of Medicare For All in the media, I started to think about American healthcare culture as we see it today and wonder if Americans really could function under a system [...]
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
My father is an immigrant who fled the Civil War in El Salvador during the 1980s and my mother is a descendant of Irish immigrants who arrived in New York searching for a better [...]
RBC in an ACA World: Determining an Optimal Surplus Range
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) brought new risks and volatility to the world of health insurance. The prospect of insuring a previously uninsured population with restrictive market rules has obviously created [...]
Fields of Gold: Reaping a Harvest from the ACA
Took my family away from my Carolina home Had dreams about the West and started to roam Six long months on a dust covered trail They say heaven's at the end but so far [...]
Making Rate Review Great Again
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is known for its non-intuitive paradoxical mechanics in the individual market. The defunding of cost-sharing subsidies increases government spending, lowers net premiums and enhances ACA market [...]
ACA Math and 2020
Most of us know by now that the mathematical results of input changes in formulas associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are not intuitive. Since its 2014 implementation, the most favorable impact (beginning [...]