Connie Lloyd Scholarship Application
We are now accepting applications for the Connie Lloyd Scholarship. The purpose of the fund is to provide a $2000...
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Will Tax Season Be Obamacare’s Next Big Challenge? Is There Really an Individual Mandate?
Will tax-filing season be the next reason for consumers to complain about the new health law? Come tax time, will...
The Single-Payer Health Insurance Failure in Vermont
For 25 years I've been saying that I wished a little state like Vermont would implement a single-payer Canadian-style health...
The Letter You Never Want to Get on Christmas Eve
I was reading the December 18th issue of Inside Health Insurance Exchanges and came across an article entitled, "New Kids...
How Many People Have Enrolled So Far in Obamacare’s Second Open Enrollment?
Undoubtedly I will hear that question many times in the coming weeks. The answer is that this enrollment process is...
Is the Administration Low-Balling Their 2015 Obamacare Enrollment Estimate?
Well, with an estimate of only 9 million to 9.9 million, apparently they are. But I will suggest the focus...
Supreme Court Takes the Obamacare Subsidy Case–Justices Will Rule Before July 1
In a Wow moment, the Supreme Court announced Friday that they will take one of the four pending "Halbig" cases––specifically...
Obamacare: Death By a Thousand Votes?
We didn't see a Republican tide on election night. We saw a Republican tsunami. A year after Obamacare went into...
Health Insurers "Expect at Least 20{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} Growth" From 2015 Enrollment
That was the lead in a Reuters story this morning saying, "health plans expect at least 20{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} growth in customers...
Two Assistant Professors in HPAM with top journal publication
Dr. Kerstin Gerst Emerson and Dr. Jayani Jayawardhana received some exciting news today. Their paper has been accepted for publication...
Figures Don’t Lie But Liars Figure––Will There Be Some Obamacare Rate Shock in 2015?
Hanging around actuaries as long as I have one of the old sayings I picked up was, "Figures don't lie,...
