…operations). The ACO is a very complex business model. If ACOs do not fly, the major objectives of PPACA (Obamacare) will be difficult if not impossible to achieve. Smackdown I…

…people want to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction and I am one of them. I support taxing especially expensive employer provided health plans as in the PPACA. I oppose the…

Health Care Thoughts: Quality Commission PPACA (aka Obamacare) required a commission on health care quality. The interagency working group released a report late last week. A PDF of the report…

…are extended with adjustments for anticipated inflation, already accounts for much of the potential discretionary spending under PPACA.” The exact amount it already accounts for is $86 billion. One car…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Comparative Effectiveness Research, Gender and Emotion A key cost bending feature of PPACA (Obamacare) is comparative effectiveness research (see http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/cer/index.html). This research is…

…larger employers to PPACA (Obamacare or the Act). A few highlights: The group expects employer health care costs to increase by 9% in 2011. Employers are dropping limits on spending…

…do the job. “Obamacare” (PPACA) requires the IRS to create an entirely new enforcement and penalty system, while the Service struggles to deal with such programs as the new home…

…This acceleration of the earlier trend is unlikely to merely be a demographic phenomenon.”Daniel Alpert And what if the PPACA is behind much of the low wage and temp job…

…the Republican dominated legislature reacted quickly, far quicker than voting on the expansion of Medicaid (one year has passed since SCOTUS ruled on the PPACA); but then, this is TBTF…

Bill Clinton has become the The Secretary of Explaining Stuff for the PPACA. Maggie goes on to explain to one writer why the Kaiser Calculator is out of date as…