{
  "author": {
    "name": "Karl Ahlrichs",
    "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
    "description": "",
    "imageLarge": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f16d6fc2845f417ea0e93a3f2b6cd37d?s=136&d=mm&r=g",
    "estimate": 19,
    "social": [],
    "articles": [
      {
        "uri": "/2014/01/22/how-to-tell-if-ppaca-is-working/",
        "title": "How to tell if PPACA is working",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "January 22, 2014",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "We had to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to know what was in it, and we had to implement it to know what was wrong. Now, how will we know it is actually working?",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2014/01/13/time-to-become-useful/",
        "title": "Time to become useful",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "January 13, 2014",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Personal financial pain is the driver for gaining mind-share in the life of many of the people the PPACA must reach.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2013/12/02/peering-around-the-corner-to-2014/",
        "title": "Peering around the corner to 2014",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "December 02, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "How the ACA affects business in 2014 and beyond depends on how flexible you are, and how strategic you can be.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/20/hr-predictions-for-2014/",
        "title": "HR predictions for 2014",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "November 20, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Answers to your first two questions about 2014 are yes, and absolutely.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/11/its-never-simple-is-it/",
        "title": "It’s never simple, is it?",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "November 11, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Employers are starting to realize that they really do need a communications strategy for how to tackle exchange education with their employees.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/05/good-riddance-to-canceled-policies/",
        "title": "Good riddance to canceled policies",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "November 05, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "As it turns out, policy cancellations will affect less than 4 percent of Americans those who buy individual health insurance directly, rather than the 80 percent who get it from their jobs or government programs, or the 15 percent who have no health insurance at all.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/28/guns-and-ppaca/",
        "title": "Guns and PPACA",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 28, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "So, Im watching Jimmy Kimmel a few weeks ago and laughing at the Street Interview bit on Which is better the ACA or Obamacare?",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/21/right-wrong-privilege/",
        "title": "Right? Wrong? Privilege?",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 21, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "I think we can all agree that health is a key part of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, yet millions remain uninsured due to the design of our system.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/15/medicaid-expansion-roulette/",
        "title": "Medicaid expansion roulette",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 15, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "How will a state's decision not to expand Medicaid influence its representation in the U.S. House?",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/08/15-minutes-in-a-blast-furnace/",
        "title": "15 minutes in a blast furnace",
        "byline": "Karl Ahlrichs",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 08, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
        "image": {
          "uri": "",
          "width": "",
          "height": ""
        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/karl-ahlrichs/",
            "name": "Karl Ahlrichs"
          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Benefits professionals have significant communication challenges in breaking through the years of misinformation and mistrust out there, to try to explain a complex (and poorly written) health care law to a hostile public.",
        "body": null
      }
    ]
  }
}