Tag: Affordable Care Act
What the US could learn from Thailand about health care coverage
Joseph Harris, Boston University
The open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) draws to a close on Dec. 15. Yet, recent assaults on...
Why the Texas ruling on Obamacare is on shaky legal ground
Simon F. Haeder, West Virginia University and Valarie Blake, West Virginia University
A Texas judge has ruled that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. For...
Short-term health plans: A junk solution to a real problem
Simon F. Haeder, West Virginia University
After failing to overturn most of the Affordable Care Act in a very public fight, President Donald Trump has...
Pre-existing conditions: The age group most vulnerable if coverage goes away
Marcia G. Ory, Texas A&M University
A widely shared New Yorker cartoon heralded “70 as the new 50” with the implications that being 50...
Why Amazon and friends’ plan could be a major disrupter of...
span>J.B. Silvers, Case Western Reserve University
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase’s announcement that they will create an independent company to offer health care to...
For richer or poorer: 4 economists ponder what 2018 has in...
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced; Christos Makridis, Stanford University; Patricia Smith, University of Michigan, and William Hauk, University of South Carolina
Editor’s note: We...
How Obamacare changed the love lives of young adults
Joelle Abramowitz, University of Michigan
It seems that each week, a new development about the Affordable Care Act calls into question the future of health...
Will Obamacare marketplaces suffer as open enrollment begins?
Michael Morrisey, Texas A&M University
The Trump administration’s executive order changing some elements of the Affordable Care Act’s administration are creating uncertainty as open...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
