Balloon Juice has a new front pager named Richard Mayhew. He's a bureaucrat at some private insurance company someplace and a political liberal. He's also been using his inside knowledge of health insurance to write a serious of very informative posts about the nuts and bolts of why health insurance works the way it does and how the Affordable Care Act changes incentives. The comment threads that follow are also unusually thoughtful and informative with real questions from real people about real situations.
I highly recommend checking him out. Here's a link to a collection of all of his posts.
On specific topics, see a list below:
How and why deductibles and co-payments work the way they do.
What networks are and how they affect costs.
The problem of adverse selection and how it hampered reforms in New York and other states
(THIS IS WHY WE NEED AN INDIVIDUAL MANDATE PEOPLE)
An explanation of the rationale behind Medicare Part D doughnut hole and why it doesn't work out well in practice.
This is how the Internet ought to work.
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