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Matthew Lawrence

  • Health Care Reform

    Individual Mandate Not Postponed for Anyone, Yet

    By Matthew Lawrence Yesterday the CMS issued a document, Options Available for Consumers with Cancelled Policies, that describes four options available to people who received notice that their healthcare plans were cancelled.  (I blogged about…

    Individual Mandate Not Postponed for Anyone, Yet

  • Health Care Reform

    Could the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Have a Legitimacy Problem?

    By Matthew Lawrence Public skepticism about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could in a sense turn out to be self-fulfilling.  The success of the Exchanges will depend in large part on how many…

    Could the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Have a Legitimacy Problem?

  • Health Care Reform

    A Little Choice About PPACA Risk Corridors That Could Have Big Consequences

    By Matthew Lawrence The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made even the most technical questions of healthcare coverage regulation newsworthy. Policy questions that would be noticed only by experts and interested parties in…

    A Little Choice About PPACA Risk Corridors That Could Have Big Consequences

  • Health Care Reform

    More thoughts on the legality of the like it/keep it fix.

    By Matthew Lawrence Yesterday, President Obama held a lengthy press conference in which he took responsibility for recent problems in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and announced that the Administration…

    More thoughts on the legality of the like it/keep it fix.

  • Health Care Reform

    Why the Administration Will Think Twice Before Delaying the Individual Mandate

      By Matthew Lawrence It has been widely reported that people are having trouble buying healthcare through the online exchanges due to technical difficulties, a situation President Obama addressed from the Rose Garden on Monday,…

    Why the Administration Will Think Twice Before Delaying the Individual Mandate