"Explaining Health Care Reform: Risk Adjustment, Reinsurance, and Risk Corridors

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"Explaining Health Care Reform: Risk Adjustment, Reinsurance, and Risk Corridors
A useful paper that covers issues I did not fully know about.  

2)
Balt Sun: Consumers trading up for better, cheaper health insurance

Sun: Sharfstein: Risks outweigh benefits of exchange switch  

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o   GOP’s sad, pathetic “replace Obamacare” plan may finally be coming Salon by Brian Beutler   

4) Measuring Quality of Care for Older Adults With Serious Illness 
An interesting article. Do not know whether they adequately address the inclusion of outcome measures, which I view as critical.  There is no discussion of this topic but perhaps such measures are encompassed in the proposed measures, hard to tell. 

5) Webinar: The Affordable Care Act's Health Insurance Marketplaces: What's the Experience So Far?

Some useful material. See especially Collins and Dash presentations.  

6) Washpost blog: Target is dropping insurance for some because of Obamacare. That could be good news for workers.