Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
In a piece in Insurance Thought Leadership, misleading labeled “Obamacare Expands Into Workers’ Comp”, MaryRose Reaston asserts that The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was created to expand healthcare coverage. Unfortunately, the act has overstepped its bounds and will dip into the workers’ … Continue reading “Obamacare”, Medicaid, and workers’ comp settlements
Read More...Turns out one reason the small employer mandate has been delayed is the Feds are incorporating a national “single payer” work comp program that is not quite ready for prime time. The POWER (Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment) program, which … Continue reading Obamacare exchanges to be used for work comp enrollment
Read More...We can all agree on something – No one – and I mean NO ONE – thinks PPACA aka Obamacare is the perfect solution to the health care insurance, cost, and quality mess. Liberals decry it for the failure to … Continue reading Ideological blinders, work comp, and Obamacare – part 9 of 9
Read More...I’m thinking we aren’t going to get this done in 9 posts…but your attention span will likely wane long before we finish figuring out the impact of PPACA on work comp. For today, we’re going to finish up on comparative … Continue reading Obamacare and workers’ comp – Part 8 of 9
Read More...Last week we briefly discussed a few ways PPACA may affect quality of care; this morning it’s a bit about outcomes research. To see what this has to do with comp, skip to the last couple paragraphs below. PPACA aka … Continue reading Obamacare and workers’ comp – part 7 of 9
Read More...Quality of care – will it increase or decrease as a result of Obamacare? That is a major concerns among those work comp professionals tuned in to health reform, as well it should be. For quality of care, it depends … Continue reading Obamacare and workers’ comp – Part 6 of 9; quality of care
Read More...We are now getting into the meat of the matter; we are not going to get health care costs under control and quality improved without major structural change in the health care delivery and financing “system”. Several components of PPACA … Continue reading Obamacare and workers’ comp – Part 5 of 9
Read More...After a brief diversion yesterday to focus on breaking news and research, it’s back to the impact of health reform on comp, with today’s post delving in to cost-shifting. Cost-shifting is a general term for provider behavior involving seeking more … Continue reading Obamacare and workers’ comp – part 4 of 9; cost shifting
Read More...There are (at least) two additional implications of more people and more workers covered by health insurance; cost-shifting, and access to care. Each is deserving of careful and thorough consideration; for now we’ll touch on the highlights and leave a … Continue reading Obamacare and workers’ comp – part 3 of 9
Read More...Monday we kicked off the discussion of the impact of PPACA/Obamacare/health reform on workers’ comp with a review of the (very limited) direct impact of reform on comp. Today it’s the the impact of increased group and Medicaid insurance coverage on … Continue reading Obamacare and workers’ comp – Part 2 of 9
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