Yesterday, I looked at the myriad ways in which the insurance industry has already tried to take advantage of the wiggle room in the Affordable Care Act. The lack of meaningful checks on their profit-seeking and the lack of meaningful enforcement in areas where they violate the law seem to make this just an obvious [...]

David Axelrod and Nancy-Ann DeParle led a conference call with liberal bloggers last night. To my knowledge, nobody at FDL was informed of the call – I guess we’ve been “frozen out” – but there’s an audio recording of it available at C&L. There are a lot of interesting claims in the call, but there [...]

I was on a conference call with White House budget director Peter Orszag and Office of Health Reform chief Nancy-Ann DeParle today, and both of them were adamant that the health care reform moving through Congress would cut costs over the long term and “move us into the future of health care,” as Orszag put [...]

Nancy-Ann DeParle, the White House health policy adviser, said on a conference call today that Harry Reid did a good job with the abortion services coverage language in the Senate health care bill. She said that it was “carefully worked through” to maintain a balance similar to the “status quo” of the Hyde Amendment, doing [...]

While Senate leaders are touting the long-term savings in the second decade from health care reform – pegged by the CBO at $650 billion – this assumes no changes to the law to allow average-cost health care plans to avoid the excise tax, an extremely unlikely scenario. There are several ways that the Senate health [...]