Today I had a very long and very boring phone conference with a major regulatory agency entity that oversees a significant contract for my company. We were talking about a data element that has been used in the insurance industry for a significant portion of my life. The discussion was how we used that element …
The Cost Control trilemna
From Brad Delong: My healthcare costs are already going to skyrocket, but being responsible for 100% of the premiums just isn’t realistic on my salary. I know I’m not the only staffer looking for a job off the Hill, because I knew this was a possibility… From the Journal of the American Medical Association via …
SATSQ
Brad Delong asks the following question about AEI: Is Everybody at the American Enterprise Institute in Thrall to Their Tea-Party Political Masters? Come on guys! You can’t all be hacks, can you? Yes, they can all be hacks as it is quite a comfortable living being a hack….
One third true and due to PPACA
I pulled this mid-afternoon as I made a serious error of fact. I’m okay with making errors of analysis, but I want my signal to noise ratio to be fairly high, so I needed to pull the post for corrections. Original errors will be in the following post but struck through. Corrections took a while …
Bending the curve
The Aaron Carrol at the Incidental Economist did some window shopping on the Indiana Exchange and discovered significant system wide curve bending: Silver plans for an individual range from $278 to $301 a month (before subsidies). This is far less than what the state released a while ago. For a family like mine, silver plans …
Saddest tweet of the week
Why Boehner is moving fast: Heritage Action, RedState surprisingly okay w/ short-term debt-limit hike, so he can’t dawdle… — Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) October 10, 2013 Robert Costa has been one of my go to sources for Speaker to the Teabaggers role, although I suspect that his sources are closer to the leadership loyalist faction than …
The Black and Tan of the insurance industry
Very few insurance companies want to hold onto all of the risk that they agreed to take on. There are two ways around this problem. The first is to commit fraud on a massive scale and laugh at the people who are filing two million dollar claims when their policies state there is neither a …
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