Ezra Klein Archive: Health Coverage
How Do You Count the Uninsured?
In my chat last week, I got a bunch of questions on how to count the uninsured, and whether this or that number was legit, and whether this wasn't really all illegal immigrants and dumb teenagers. The answer, essentially, is...
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September 14, 2009; 4:43 PM ET |
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The Middle of the Beginning of the End
James Kwak responds to my earlier post on employer-based insurance and notes that the problem isn't simply that employers are dropping coverage, but that there's every reason to believe that that deterioration will speed up: Not only is employer-based coverage...
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September 11, 2009; 4:45 PM ET |
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Confused About Insurance
It's no mystery why the insurance market isn't competitive from the standpoint of individuals: Most of us don't choose our insurer. Twelve percent of us are on Medicare. Thirteen percent are on Medicaid. Fifteen percent are uninsured. And 53.4 percent...
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August 26, 2009; 4:06 PM ET |
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Swine Flu Hearts Our Health-Care System
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology released its big report (pdf) on H1N1 on Tuesday. Some of the news was pretty sobering: The council estimates that swine flu could infect up to half of the population this...
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August 25, 2009; 4:31 PM ET |
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Does Medicare Work by Dictat?
A couple of conversations I've had recently have convinced me that people are confused in an important way about how Medicare -- and thus a possible public plan -- sets its prices. So here's a crude explanation: Congress creates what's...
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June 29, 2009; 6:31 PM ET |
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A Crisis of Legitimacy
In response to yesterday's post about the high levels of satisfaction people report for their personal insurance coverage, reader Akshai wrote in: People with chronic illnesses will poll different (presumably) from people who have been healthy their entire insured lives....
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June 25, 2009; 7:01 AM ET |
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