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The Affordable Care Act Six Years After Passage

The Affordable Care Act Six Years After Passage: Hopes, Fears, Disappointments, Windfalls, and Realities (So Far)

The Future of Health Care Lecture Series: February 26, 2016, 5-7 PM: Thompson Courtroom, UMKC, KC MO http://mediasite.law.umkc.edu/Mediasite/Play/16b615abd5084bbea3cd1fa9d939847e1d


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ObamaCare: How Is It Doing?

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There have been three very surprising things with respect to Obamacare implementation so far.

The first is the surge in enrollment in employer-sponsored insurance. The fear was that people and employers would find the coverage offered on the exchanges irresistible, and that there would be a great deal of disruptive churn as the exchanges started up. The penalty for large employers who did not offer health insurance was constructed to guard against this. Yet it seems to have been needless. The appearance of the exchange option appears to have led to more rather than fewer employers offering insurance.

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The Affordable Care Act Six Years after Passage: February 26, 2016

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The affordable care act six years after passage:

Hopes, Fears, Disappointment, Windfalls, and Realities (so far)

Friday, February 26, 2016 :: 5:30-7:30 PM :: Thompson Courtroom, Ground Floor University of Missouri--Kansas City School of Law :: 500 E. 52nd Street :: Kansas City, MO

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ObamaCare Increases the Salience of Antitrust in Health Insurance Markets from "Important" to "Essential"

As the extremely-sharp Aaron Edlin has taught me, apropos of the current wave of proposed health insurance mergers--Aetna-Humana, Anthem-Cigna, and Centene-HealthNet:

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