If you are an individual without employer-provided health insurance that plans to get insurance on the exchange, the existence of the individual mandate (or lack there of) will likely have little or no impact on what you will pay in premiums. The way the new exchange is designed is as follows: If you are an [...]

It is the seemingly small details which will likely end up deciding the success or failure of health care reform. For example, the fate of the public option may rest on a seemingly unimportant, few-word definition in the health care reform bill. Any health care reform bill will provide some individuals with tax credits to [...]

Senator Baucus finally released his long awaited health care reform bill with zero bipartisan support. I’ve been looking through the bill and discovered something very interesting. Baucus has purposely written his bill to make sure adding a robust public option would not dramatically reduce the CBO score of his legislation (it would still save average [...]