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Wonks Anonymous: Category Archive for Health Insurance

California Cares

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/8/2010 6:06 PM | Add Comment

Industry Standard

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/31/2010 4:40 PM | Add Comment

The Kids Are Alright

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/28/2010 11:19 AM | Add Comment

The Preventative Care Myth

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/28/2010 9:26 AM | Add Comment

The Finest Minds That Money Can Buy

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/26/2010 6:07 PM | Add Comment

You Can't Get There From Here

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/22/2010 12:15 PM | Add Comment

Blame The Doctors

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/21/2010 8:25 AM | Add Comment

Doing the Math

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/8/2010 12:19 PM | Add Comment

Market Magic

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/6/2010 8:58 AM | Add Comment

Making Health Insurance Choice Work

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/3/2009 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Not A Great Loss

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/27/2009 9:00 AM | Add Comment

The Value Of A Geezer

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/26/2009 8:12 AM | Add Comment

And Pigs Will Grow Wings

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/17/2009 7:34 PM | Add Comment

Why Health Insurers Have Terrible Service

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/17/2009 7:08 PM | Add Comment

Just Crazy

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/12/2009 8:23 AM | Add Comment

If You Don't Believe The Numbers

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/10/2009 1:34 PM | Add Comment

Savings That Will Not Happen

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/9/2009 1:17 PM | Add Comment

I'd Like You To Meet Your Deductible

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/9/2009 12:53 PM | Add Comment

A Luxury Tax On Health Insurance

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/6/2009 9:26 AM | Add Comment

More On The Moderate Mark Up

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/6/2009 8:58 AM | Add Comment

That Just Proves My Point

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/31/2009 10:41 AM | Add Comment

Choice

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/30/2009 1:00 PM | Add Comment

The Future of Medicare

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/28/2009 10:26 AM | Add Comment

Health Insurance Exchanges 4: A Revolution In Health Care Finance

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/27/2009 7:06 AM | Add Comment

Public Option Q&A

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/24/2009 4:56 PM | Add Comment

Compassionate Conservatism

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/24/2009 6:32 AM | Add Comment

Health Insurance Exchanges 3: One Size Fits All

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/23/2009 4:17 PM | Add Comment

I Was Going To Write Something About The Gang of Six

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/22/2009 7:43 AM | Add Comment

Health Insurance Exchanges 2: Will Individual Mandates Help

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/19/2009 5:36 PM | Add Comment

Health Insurance Exchanges 1: A Free Market Fable

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/17/2009 11:51 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Our Way Of Life Under Attack By Crazed Rhinos

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/10/2009 12:08 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

What's Wrong With Rand

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/9/2009 2:46 PM | Add Comment

Incentives Should Motivate The People Who Actually Make The Choices

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/20/2009 10:11 AM | Add Comment

Skin In The Game

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/20/2009 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Giving Economics A Bad Name

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/16/2009 7:14 PM | Add Comment

A Way To Pay For Health Care

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/16/2009 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Who Indeed?

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/13/2009 3:24 PM | Add Comment

How The New Health Plans Will Keep Most People Out Of The Doctor's Office

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/30/2009 5:52 AM | Add Comment

The Preventative Benefit Explained

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/29/2009 12:15 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

We Have Found The Problem And It Is You

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/25/2009 9:06 AM | Add Comment

The High Deductible Myth

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/24/2009 3:56 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Health Care and Incentives: Consumer Choice

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/17/2009 6:44 PM | Add Comment

Why We Need A Public Alternative

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/10/2009 7:24 PM | Add Comment

"Self Funded" Health Insurance

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/10/2009 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Does The Health Insurance Tax Exemption Favor The Rich?

Posted by Chris Martin at 5/15/2009 7:41 PM | Add Comment

I Missed This One

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/27/2009 7:06 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Health Insurance Costs Will Break Small Businesses

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/23/2009 8:44 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Can You Please Let This Idea Die?

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/15/2009 11:53 AM | Add Comment

Affirmative Action?

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/8/2009 9:31 AM | Add Comment

News From The Trenches

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/29/2009 7:20 PM | Add Comment

Unfair Competition

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/26/2009 8:28 PM | Add Comment

Why Health Insurance Should Pay For Viagra

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/25/2009 4:49 PM | Add Comment

Evidence Based Medicine

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/14/2009 3:21 PM | Add Comment

Practicing Medicine Without A License

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/11/2009 5:27 PM | Add Comment

A New Insurance Model?

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/28/2008 11:22 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Now We Know A Little More

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/21/2008 10:02 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Can We Spend Less On Health Care?

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/17/2008 7:43 PM | Add Comment

We Don't Know Yet But

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/16/2008 6:06 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Medicaid Secondary Payer

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/10/2008 1:51 PM | Add Comment

COBRA And EMTALA

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/9/2008 8:01 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Better Living Through Underwriting

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/3/2008 8:45 PM | Add Comment

Capitation

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/30/2008 9:28 AM | Add Comment

Medicaid Reform

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/27/2008 11:26 AM | Add Comment

When The Time Comes To Save Medicare

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/25/2008 3:56 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

ESRD

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/18/2008 8:30 PM | Add Comment

Unintended Consequences?

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/3/2008 8:39 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Individual Responsibility

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/30/2008 7:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Squaring The Circle

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/12/2008 4:42 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The Square And The Circle

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/11/2008 6:44 PM | Add Comment

WonkCheck.org

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/6/2008 7:12 PM | Add Comment

Someone Has Noticed Us

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/5/2008 3:08 PM | Add Comment

The Health Insurance Catastrophe Continues

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/25/2008 7:39 PM | Add Comment

Someone Has Noticed The Problems With Health Insurance

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/22/2008 8:03 AM | Add Comment

Deregulate Health Insurance?

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/14/2008 5:17 PM | Add Comment

Not So Sick As We Had Feared

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/11/2008 6:53 PM | Add Comment

Wonks Anonymous Deals With His Own Morbidity

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/5/2008 7:29 PM | Add Comment

The Cost of Reforming Our Health Care System

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/12/2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

The Origins of Employer Provided Health Insurance: One Story

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/8/2008 7:26 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Democrats' Health Plan: The Short Version

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/8/2008 7:04 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Dr. Garfield's Dilemma

Posted by Chris Martin at 5/14/2008 8:15 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

That Just Proves My Point

Posted by Chris Martin at 5/5/2008 4:57 PM | Add Comment

McCain's Health Plan. The Short Version

Posted by Chris Martin at 5/4/2008 1:03 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

I Was Wrong about McCain's Health Plan

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/29/2008 6:55 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Making the Most of Your Preventative Care Benefit

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/23/2008 10:40 AM | Add Comment

Just In Case You Thought The Individual Health Insurance Market Was Working

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/2/2008 12:10 PM | Add Comment

McCain's Health Plan

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/19/2008 7:01 PM | Add Comment

Charity Care for The Insured

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/19/2008 8:21 PM | Add Comment

Health Insurance Mandates

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/6/2008 12:22 PM | Add Comment

What Type of Health Insurance Do You Want?

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/4/2008 5:20 PM | Add Comment

At Least Bush Has His Priorities Straight

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/2/2008 5:57 PM | Add Comment

Lifetime Caps on Health Insurance

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/2/2008 4:58 PM | Add Comment

How Health Insurance Providers Make a Profit 5: Avoid Sick People

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/2/2008 3:07 PM | Add Comment

How Health Insurance Providers Make a Profit 4: Lower Quality

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/26/2008 5:19 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

How Health Insurance Providers Make a Profit 3: Cost Control

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/26/2008 1:39 PM | Add Comment

How Health Insurance Providers Make a Profit 2: Pricing

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/19/2008 9:30 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

How Health Insurance Providers Make a Profit 1: Introduction

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/19/2008 8:52 PM | Add Comment

Health Insurance Is Not Healthcare

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/5/2008 2:29 PM | Add Comment
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