In the early days of this blog, I wrote extensively on how states were rolling out Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare or ACA).  The 2012 Supreme Court decision that upheld the ACA made Medicaid expansion optional for the states.  This expansion allows states to raise the income eligibility level from 100% […]

The past weeks events regarding the proposed ACA (or Obamacare) repeal and replacement must be causing some amusement among Barack Obama and his minions.  The question remains: Where do we go from here?The Real Clear Politics Average of public opinion polls has shown a steady increase in support for the ACA since the November election.  […]

This month it has been reported that life expectancy in 2015 in the US has decreased for the first time since 1993.  The decrease was from 78.9 years in 2014 to 78.8 in 2015.  The reasons for this decrease are unclear though the overall death rate increased by 1.2% last year.  The top causes of […]

I have just relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah for a job.  I’ve decided to look at how the state differs from my former state Pennsylvania.  The graph above shows the trends for both states and the US from 2006 to 2014 (the method they used to collect the data changed in 2008 which is […]

This post is a Cross-Post with healthcare4allPA.org.   The Census Bureau has released the 2013 Small Area Health Insurance Estimates for all counties and states in the US. The trend for the Pennsylvania and the US from 2006-2013 can be seen above. The US rate has decreased from a high of 17.7% in 2010 to 16.8% […]

Views of the ACA Now Reps Dems Inds Working well, keep as is 6% 1% 14% 5% Good things, but changes needed 60% 41% 73% 61% Needs to be repealed entirely 32% 56% 13% 32% In the five years since it’s passage, polling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still remarkably consistent. The above […]

My organization, Healthcare for all PA is in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign to raise finds for advocacy on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo.  With our economic impact study we are prepared to push to make Single Payer a reality in Pennsylvania.  We need your help to make this a reality.  You can follow us […]