"The administration is trying to present this as a set of perfectly ordinary kind of transition measures that insurers normally make available to new customers ... But that's not what this looks like to [this author], and a few conversations today suggest it's not what it looks like to the insurers. To 'strongly encourage' insurers to take these kinds of steps (to use the Orwellian phrase of the HHS announcement), and to do it just a couple of weeks before the new system is supposed to start, suggests that the administration's health experts mapped out how January is shaping up and had a collective heart attack."  MORE >>