At the risk of sounding like a heretic and being forced to revoke my lifetime membership in the Health Policy Wonk Association, I confess that I'm tired of reading about Obamacare.

Don't get me wrong. I still support the law and believe it's the right approach, while acknowledging that the political compromises built into it and its somewhat ham-handed implementation have curtailed its effectiveness. But I believe those glitches will be worked out in time.  That's the way both laws and markets work - they find their equilibrium over time.

Last month, in the first installment in this series, I explained risk adjustment and burden of illness concepts in more or less plain English to give readers and my fellow health data policy wonks (there's that word again!) a better sense of what these concepts mean in practice.  In this second installment, I will demonstrate how these concepts apply to the Total Cost of Care Compared to Expected (C2E) reports available on www.cohealthdata.org.