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The Washington Post; subscription may be required
June 19, 2013
Forbes bloger and Manhattan Institute fellow Avik Roy discusses Obamacare with Washington Post blogger ("Wonktalk") Ezra Klein, including the "rate shock" controversy. The video is approximately 45 minutes long.
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Dec. 16, 2013
"Insurers look at these next few years as a gold rush. Tens of millions of people will be buying private insurance of the exchanges. It's a swarm of customers like nothing they've ever seen. And they plan to capture them -- even if they need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to do so."
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Nov. 26, 2013
"The worry, at this point, is that the site is working in ways that are visible but broken in ways that are harder to see. The Obama administration won't answer direct questions on the percentage of '834s' -- the forms insurers need to sign people up for the correct policies at the correct prices -- that are coming through with errors. Robert Laszewski, a health-industry consultant with deep contacts among the insurers, told the National Journal the problem is getting better, but that his clients are still seeing a five percent error rate. That's still too high."
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Nov. 19, 2013
"Forcing the system to do the heavy lifting of registration and verification before people could even read the site crashed the servers. So the Obama administration decided to open up window shopping.... It might be working fine. But it's a horrible user experience.... Fight through it, and, finally, after all that, you can browse some plans. There's no estimate of subsidies, or of the way your age will affect your premiums. And this simple, not-particularly-helpful information is only accessible after navigating, by my count, eight separate pages, each covered in intimidating explanatory text and discouraging warnings. It's a mess. And it doesn't need to be."
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Nov. 8, 2013
"Obama was wrong to promise that everyone who liked their insurance could keep it. For a small minority of Americans, that flatly isn't true. But the real sin would've been leaving the individual insurance market alone. The individual market -- which serves five percent of the population, and which is where the disruptions are happening -- is a horror show."
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Nov. 7, 2013
"Obamacare is protected from an actual death spiral by interlocking failsafes. Some kick in if not enough healthy people sign up. Others give healthy people reasons to sign up. Others make sure insurers don't raise premiums too fast. But together, they offer substantial protection against an actual death spiral."
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Oct. 23, 2013
"It would be one thing if problems with the government's new health-care Web site had been unknowable. But they weren't. Staff at HHS and CMS saw this coming for months. Insurance companies began predicting a mess long ago. But the bad news was shaded and spun as it made its way up the chain of command. The alarming failures seen in the (inadequate) load tests were written off as bugs that would soon be fixed.... The new health-care law has a chance because those management failures are over."
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Oct. 21, 2013
"HealthCare.gov probably has about a month before the problems of the web site infect the product itself. The nightmare scenario looks something like this: The web site continues to be a mess through the fall. As such, only the people who need insurance most -- older, sicker people -- go through the trouble of signing up. Younger, healthier people come once or twice and then never again. The risk pools fill with more expensive applicants and, in year two, premiums spike."
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
May 30, 2013
"Insurers have to decide now how much they'll charge next year.... The problem is that insurers don't know what their costs will be next year. So they're guessing. They're guessing who will enter the exchanges. They're guessing who will choose to buy their coverage. They're guessing whether healthy, young people will obey the individual mandate or pay the penalty. They're guessing what price they'll need to be competitive against other insurers, given differences in the networks, benefits, etc.... If they get it wrong by being too cheap, they'll lose money."
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Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post; subscription may be required
May 24, 2013
"The California exchange will have 13 insurance options, and the heavy competition appears to be driving down prices.... California is a particularly important test for Obamacare. It's not just the largest state in the nation. It's also one of the states most committed to implementing Obamacare effectively"
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Morgan Lewis
Dec. 13, 2022 "All covered job postings must include a general description of all benefits offered for the specific available position ... If the general description of benefits changes after a posting has been published, the job posting must be updated.... [T]he law applies to any employer who conducts business activity in Washington, regardless of whether the company has any employees in Washington or any physical presence in Washington.... A posting for a remote role must comply with Washington law if the position could be performed by a Washington-based employee. Employers cannot avoid coverage by excluding Washington applicants[.]" MORE >> |
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and American Benefits Council
Mar. 13, 2012 27 pages. "The misguided decision below, which allows employee benefit plans to have been amended unknowingly and unintentionally by corporate purchase agreements that were neither identified nor intended as plan amendments, profoundly and adversely affects amici's members by throwing the terms of their plans into doubt, introducing the prospect of enormous unanticipatedliabilities, and opening the door to unnecessary, time consuming and expensive litigation over the operation of their plans for many prior years. We believe this Court's review is urgently needed." MORE >> |
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The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Sept. 24, 2014
"The Washington Post announced large cuts in retirement benefits on Tuesday, declaring that it would eliminate future retirement medical benefits and freeze defined-benefit pensions for nonunion employees.... The changes will hit hardest at employees hired before 2009 who could plan on receiving pension payments based on their income and years of service. Each of those employees could see scores -- or hundreds -- of thousands of dollars less over the course of a retirement. More recent hires do not have traditional pension plans. The Post will create a new cash balance plan to replace the pensions for nonunion employees and a separate but similar plan for those covered by the union."
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The Washington Post; subscription may be required
June 29, 2005
Excerpt: Post reporters David Hilzenrath and Terence O'Hara were online to discuss The Post's survey of executive compensation at Washington-area companies.
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The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Nov. 10, 2023 "In 2009, The Post closed its pension plan to new employees -- and those who remained in the plan had their benefits frozen after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos acquired the newspaper. The pension fund itself, however, didn't freeze. As federal filings show, it has fattened to the point that it can finance 240 exit packages without breaking an actuarial sweat." |
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The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Oct. 30, 2013 "The administration is defending this pledge with a rather slim reed -- that there is nothing in the law that makes insurance companies force people out of plans they were enrolled in before the law passed. That explanation conveniently ignores the regulations written by the administration to implement the law. Moreover, it also ignores the fact that the purpose of the law was to bolster coverage and mandate a robust set of benefits, whether someone wanted to pay for it or not. The president's statements were sweeping and unequivocal -- and made both before and after the bill became law. The White House now cites technicalities to avoid admitting that he went too far in his repeated pledge, which, after all, is one of the most famous statements of his presidency. The president's promise apparently came with a very large caveat: 'If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan -- if we deem it to be adequate.'" MORE >> |
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The Wall Street Journal
Aug. 5, 2013 "But while all [of Washington Post Co.'s] assets have their merits, here is one asset that gets much less attention: its hugely over-funded pension.... That's a pension plan that owes its recipients just under $1.47 billion, but has $2.07 billion in assets -- in other words, it is over-funded by a cool $604 million." MORE >> |
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The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Feb. 25, 2011 Ellen Anne Hennessy (Nell) ... was a nationally recognized expert on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and a tireless champion for the rights of plan participants and pension plans. She was a model and mentor to many in the field of employee benefits and worked to educate both lawyers and other benefits professionals in the intricacies of employee benefits law and practice.... Donations in her honor may be made to The Nell Hennessy Employee Benefits Scholar Award at the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Office of Development and Alumni Relations [which has an online donation form at https://secure.cua.edu/donate/placeOrder.cfm?productType=1&productID=50&submit=Donate+Now ] MORE >> |
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National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems [NCPERS]
Feb. 22, 2010 1 page. "[The National Association of State Retirement Administrators, the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems, and the National Council on Teacher Retirement] submitted [this] Letter to the Editor of (The Washington Post; free registration required) in response to their mis-reporting on The Pew Center on the States' report on public sector pensions and retiree health care." MORE >> |
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The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Dec. 13, 2006
Excerpt: In his Nov. 27 op-ed ['A Fix for Social Security?'], about a possible bipartisan compromise that would lift the current $90,000 cap on taxable Social Security earnings, Sebastian Mallaby made a factual error and ignored important questions of fairness.
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