Based on the contours established over the last four months we now have enough information on the ambitious launch of the Affordable Care Act to begin to understand the shape of things to come. The intended objective of the Act (The practical elimination of uninsured...
Shoppers at Wal-Mart today may be treated to chanting people circling in front of the store and criticizing their labor practices. The likelihood that one of those people is, or even was, an actual employee of Wal-Mart will be slim to none. But that’s cool with the...
The Obama Administration announced changes last Friday in dates relevant to open enrollment in 2014; it also announced that 2013 enrollees will have until December 23rd to pay for insurance coverage beginning January 1, 2014 (the previous deadline was December 15)....
Today ends all of the suspense surrounding the health plans and costs available to citizens as the health insurance market places open for business. I expect a muted start for a variety of reasons: 1) The most frequent query on the healthcare.gov website through...
The headline numbers in the jobs report released last Thursday were 169,000 and 7.3% (new jobs and U3 unemployment rate). Tepid job growth, but hey, the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percent, so all in all not bad, right? WRONG! Here are the miserable...
