Thinking About Health: Open enrollment for insurance

It is open enrollment time for medical insurance, and for people having to shop in the individual insurance market; the choices are as confusing as ever.

Television ads splashed over the airwaves as the midterm electioneering came to a close didn’t help much. By the end of the campaign it was hard to find any candidate – Democrat or Republican – who didn’t want to cover people with preexisting hea...