Supreme Court Subsidy Decision; Quality Focus; Jobs

• 1) King v. Burwell: What a Subsidy Shutdown Could Mean for Consumers

2) NQF Honors Consumers’ CHECKBOOK Founder Robert Krughoff with Inaugural Consumers and Patients for Quality Award

I have previously written about the advantages of Checbook's comparison of Illinois' ACA plans. I hope that this model spreads to all the other states.  Glad to see that not only have they been recognized by RWJF for this new product, but that NQF also has honored them. 

3) Obama To Push Health Care Quality Over Quantity In Anniversary Speech

This sounds good. The devil is in the specifics.  

4) ACA-related Jobs Grow Faster in Medicaid Expansion States - Forbes Magazine andCenter for American Progress.

5) 5 ways that Obamacare might have changed your doctor's office visit

6) HHS launches innovative digital storytelling project to support federal HIV response 7) Test Your Knowledge of the Affordable Care Act’s Tax Provisions                      With the tax filing deadline approaching, Americans for the first  time are confronting several Affordable Care Act tax requirements  as they fill out their returns.  A new interactive quiz from the  Kaiser Family Foundation tests people’s knowledge about what the  individual mandate means for taxpayers, what penalties may apply,  and how those who receive premium subsidies through the ACA's  Marketplaces will reconcile the amounts based on actual income. I got only 5 of 10 correct. Tough quiz.   8) Even In Nursing, Men Make More Than Women 9) Medicaid's Estate Recovery Provision Makes Some Enrollees Think Twice 10) Insurers Scale Back Nursing Home Coverage After Costs Soar