Friday, April 30, 2021

"How stupid is American healthcare?"

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Somehow I took this from Adrianna McIntyre as an irresistible challenge: but there are so many ways to say "American health care syst...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Free silver plans at incomes above 150% FPL

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid The American Rescue Plan enacted last month radically though temporarily boosted premiums in the ACA marketplace....
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Thursday, April 22, 2021

The dark side of free bronze plans: Erosion of CSR silver enrollment accelerates

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid While the 2021 Open Enrollment Report for the ACA marketplace released by CMS yesterday shows an overall increase...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

ACA 2.0 -- how's it going so far?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid On a temporary basis, the health insurance-related provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) signed into ...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

Can free silver close much of the "upper coverage gap" in nonexpansion states?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Update, 5/4/21 : New data via the CMS state-level public use files for 2021 shows that enrollment at 100-138% FPL ...
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Sunday, April 11, 2021

In nonexpansion states, what percentage of near-poor adults (100-138% FPL) enroll in marketplace coverage?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Update, 5/4/21 : New data via the CMS state-level public use files for 2021 shows that enrollment at 100-138% FPL ...
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Friday, April 09, 2021

Where Medicaid enrollment growth may be concentrated

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid I just stumbled on a little Medicaid factoid (ex-post, as always...) that made my eyes pop.   As I've been not...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2021

ACA's emergency Special Enrollment Period most effective in states that have not expanded Medicaid

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid CMS has released a report showing strong response in the first six weeks to the emergency Special Enrollment Peri...
Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Is the U.S. uninsured rate at an all-time low?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Enough states have reported Medicaid tallies through February to posit that the pandemic has increased enrollment ...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Will 60-64 year-olds have a choice between Medicare and Obamacare? What will that look like?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid I turned 62 recently. Yesterday, for the first time, I took seriously the possibility that my wife and I might be ...
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Friday, March 26, 2021

An American Rescue Plan benefit you'll have to wait for

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid UPDATE: On April 9, the IRS solved the problem described, announcing that 2020 marketplace enrollees who received...
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Sunday, March 21, 2021

Should younger enrollees in the ACA marketplace be more heavily subsidized?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Enrollment in the ACA marketplace skews old.  In 2020 , only 26% of enrollees were in the 18-34 age range, while 2...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Medicaid expansion enrollment grew nearly 30% year-over-year in 19-state sample

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Time for an update on Medicaid expansion enrollment growth since the pandemic struck. Below is a sampling of 19 ex...
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Friday, March 12, 2021

The American Rescue Plan Act makes free coverage available to many below 100% FPL in nonexpansion states

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid An odd provision  the American Rescue Plan Act that President Biden signed yesterday provides that anyone who rec...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

In Memoriam: Jules B. Sprung

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My father, Jules Sprung, died this past Saturday after a short hospital stay -- of kidney failure specifically, and old age generally. He wa...
Tuesday, March 09, 2021

The ACA as it should have been -- sort of, for a while at least

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Strictly speaking, by my my lights, "the ACA as it should have been" would be "Medicare for all who...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2021

The Kaiser Family Foundation is trying to tell us something

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid The Kaiser Family Foundation is one of the most reliable and comprehensive source of healthcare data and analysis ...
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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Does mandatory maximum silver loading require a risk adjustment fix?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid I want to address a somewhat technical issue concerning regulatory action to require that gold plans in the ACA ma...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

In Health Affairs: The Biden administration should complete the silver loading revolution

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid The Covid relief legislation making its way through Congress would vastly increase premium subsidies in the ACA ma...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

In The American Prospect: My Take on Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid I have a review in The American Prospect of Jonathan's Cohn's inside-the-creators' heads chronicle of ...