What 2019 ACA Premiums Could Have Looked Like, China's Reaction to the Trade War, and More

August 7, 2018

Discovery Communications Wellness Center Medical Director Liz Sequeira confers with a patient at the clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland December 3, 2009. Sequeira says seeing patients in her office at Discovery Communications Inc's modern headquarters is like stepping back in time and being an old-time small town doctor. Her clinic off the airy lobby serves as many employees' first stop for blood tests and medication. As Democratic lawmakers in Washington inch ahead with plans to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, companies like Discovery are striking out on their own -- whether through on-site doctors or diet plans -- to rein in soaring costs in a nation where employers still pay for the bulk of medical care. Picture taken December 3, 2009. To match Special Report USA-HEALTHCARE/WELLNESS REUTERS/Jim Bourg (UNITED STATES HEALTH BUSINESS SOCIETY) - RTXRMUZ

How would individual market premiums have changed in a stable policy environment?

Matthew Fiedler discusses how insurers are performing financially and explains what individual market premiums could have looked like in 2019 without the political uncertainty surrounding the individual mandate and other health care policies.

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Dennis Shea (R) U.S. Ambassador to the WTO talks with Xiangchen Zhang, Chinese Ambassador to the WTO before the General Council meeting at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, July 26, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse - RC1E0D3C5680

Here's what it was like in China the moment President Trump's trade war started

Aaron Klein

"Being on the ground when the Trump Administration announced tariffs and began this recent exchange in economic warfare was fascinating, and a sharp reminder of the differences in the battlefield between military and economic conflict,” Aaron Klein writes.

Trainee math teacher Mia Shaw from the Teach for America program teaches a class at George Washington Carver Middle School in Los Angeles, California July 18, 2012. This fall Teach for America will send a record 10,000 teachers into classrooms from New York to California. The nonprofit boasts $300 million in assets and collects tens of millions a year in public funds, even at a time of steep cuts to education budgets. But critics, including a handful of disillusioned alumni, contend that policies promoted by TFA-trained reformers threaten to damage the very schools they once set out to save. They argue, too, that TFA's relentless push to expand has betrayed its founding ideals. Picture taken July 18, 2012. To match Feature USA-EDUCATION/TEACHFORAMERICA REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION SOCIETY POVERTY WEALTH) - RTR36W0M

Could policies intended to improve test scores for disadvantaged students end up hurting others?

David Figlio and Krzysztof Karbownik

David Figlio and Krzystof Karbownik find that school policies to close the educational achievement gap for children from low-income backgrounds could have unintended consequences for their economically-advantaged peers.

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