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September 6, 2016

Op-ed: Health fee pinches taxpayers

Read this op-ed in the Boston Herald (September 4, 2016). Sometimes the Affordable Care Act (ACA) seems like part of history. While headlines about implementation pains persist, many changes are taking place under the radar. One such change that has received almost no...
Healthcare
April 11, 2014

Fall River Herald News: Guest Opinion: Mass. Health Care Connector's failures show disconnect of ACA exchanges

By Josh Archambault Date: April 10, 2014 Read it here. Seven months after open enrollment began under the Affordable Care Act, Massachusetts’ online health insurance exchange doesn’t work, and the state government is just firing the primary contractor CGI, without a final...
American Citizenship, Healthcare
May 16, 2013

Boston Herald: Gov owes Obamacare diagnosi$

Op-Ed by Mary Connaughton & Josh Archambault Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Think because you live in Massachusetts you’re protected from the Obamacare insurance premium spikes that you have seen in the national news? Think again, especially if you work at a small company....
Healthcare
February 17, 2013

USA Today op-ed: "How ObamaCare can improve for states"

Governors need to require greater flexibility in order to tailor reforms to their state. As the key months for implementing the Affordable Care Act begin, 30 governors are resisting key provisions of the law. But these leaders don’t need to act just...
Healthcare
October 15, 2012

Fall River Herald News: Beware ObamaCare's "Cadillac Tax" That's More Like a "Ford Tax"

President Barack Obama has consistently said that Massachusetts was the template for the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as ObamaCare. So the conventional wisdom has been that the new law won’t change much here. But a new Pioneer Institute study demonstrates...
Healthcare
July 16, 2012

Mass. Health Reform As Pig In A Poke

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/07/mass-health-reform-as-pig-in-a-poke I had to look up this expression to make sure I was using it correctly, but yes, indeed, the opinion piece in the Boston Herald today from The Pioneer Institute’s Josh Archambault argues that the legislature is buying a pig in...
Healthcare
July 9, 2012

ObamaCare more taxing than RomneyCare? Laws' differences debated

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/09/obamacare-more-taxing-than-romneycare-two-laws-differences-debated/ President Obama’s camp chafes at the notion the health care law’s individual  insurance mandate packs the threat of a tax. One way Democrats have been  responding to to such criticisms is to point the finger at Mitt Romney and the  health...
Healthcare
July 6, 2012

GOP pushes carrot approach to insurance, over ObamaCare mandate's stick

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/06/gop-pushes-carrot-approach-to-insuring-americas-over-obamacare-mandate-stick/ Part of the the effort to repeal and replace the President Obama’s health  care law, as Republicans see it, is to find a way to entice the uninsured to buy  insurance rather than force them to do so. The existing law...
Healthcare
July 5, 2012

Spinning the Supreme Court’s healthcare decision

http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/spinning_the_supreme_courts_he.php?page=all In the days before and after the Supreme Court’s decision, spin doctors were hard at work peddling their experts, positions, and takes on what might happen, and then what did happen and what might happen next. This is all to be...
Healthcare
July 5, 2012

As US adopts health care fee, Mass. is in spotlight

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/07/06/44000_uninsured_massachusetts_residents_paid_penalty_in_2010/?page=2 Francisco Machado of Lowell had long gone without health insurance. Strong and healthy, he preferred to save the money or send it to family in Brazil, until pain and buzzing in his ear sent him to the emergency room. The $600...