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This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).

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More than nine years into our longest economic expansion on record, more employers are now using health insurance coverage to attract and keep workers, and are absorbing rising costs rather than passing them on to their employees. But this may change if the economy cools down, and the bigger challenge that still remains is how to help the 44 million Americans who are uninsured despite the robust economy.

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The good news for the ratings system is that many parents are using the ratings and find them helpful. But they do not always understand the system, and there are changes they'd like to see made.

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The widespread dropping of drug benefits that some had feared has been averted so far as business figure out what their long-term response would be.

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Beneficiaries are having a difficult time answering the most important question 'What does it mean for me'

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Seniors still are having a hard time. Seniors still aren't really prepared, and they're going to need a lot of help to make the choices they need to make under the law.

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Don't be fooled by the moderation we've seen this year. History has told us that when it comes to controlling health care costs, we've achieved some temporary successes, but the rate of increase always bounces back.

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A substantial number of beneficiaries are already enrolled, but a lot turns on what those who are on the fence decide to do between now and May 15. If they stay out for now, some could face financial penalties down the road if they later change their mind.

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There are lots of things on the table, but there's nothing that will have a significant impact on the rate of increase of health care costs.

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The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) 1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago.

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If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.

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This is an option that can be a real good deal for many, many millions of people, but it's not for everybody, least of all people who are chronically ill and low-income.

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The two obstacles are fundamental disagreements on how to do it and coming up with the money to pay the bill.

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The positive drum beat has caught up with the negative one. But on an individual basis, most seniors still can't answer the big question 'What does it mean for me

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a slow but perceptible deterioration of our employer-based (health insurance) system.

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We may be looking at the start of a fundamental shift in what we mean by health insurance, from a system where we share risks to one where it's up to individuals to make their own deals and bear their own risks.

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The good news is the rate of increase in health care costs is down, ... The bad news is that's the only good news.

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The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.

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It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system.

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There have been temporary successes, but always health care costs have bounced back with a vengeance.

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It's just too complicated for them to get it from a brochure, or a Web site, or to answer the critical question of, 'What does this mean for me' ... Unfortunately, it's going to take a real world test for us to figure out whether this works or doesn't work.

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There is some good news, I suppose. The rate of growth is slightly lower than last year. The bad news is that's the only good news, because premiums are still going up three times faster than wages.

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The American people rejected strict managed care in the late '90s. Government regulation, like the kind in other industrialized countries, is opposed by powerful industry forces and is not in the cards politically. So we're stuck with a bunch of halfway measures.

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