ACA Tax Fix, Enrollment in the States; Hospital Prices Down

An Obamacare fix  Excellent editorial in the Post re Tie between Tax Penalty and Extended Enrollment. Glad it is so positive.  

The Health-Care Enrollment Story Is in the States  Useful article 

Hospital prices always go up. But this year, they went down: http://bit.ly/1DFDm5y  

What Funders Can Do to Advance Payment Reform

NYT: For Tens of Millions, Obamacare Is Working

This is an outstanding review of the accomplishments. covers several points that I was not aware. Highly recommend it.  (Note: already posted in a number of places)

An Early Look at the Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care in ACOs

Emerging health care models for innovators http://goo.gl/fb/inyqo6  

CHART: 3 disease categories contributed to more than 1/3 

of US medical services spending growth from 2000-2010 http://kaiserf.am/1EeEA78