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Mostly about the ACA: Obamacare to Trumpcare to Bidencare.

Saturday, July 03, 2021

Making the ACA work 2014-2016: Administrative roads not taken

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid The Obama administration stood up the ACA's core programs in the face of a never-ending shitstorm of Republic...
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Monday, June 28, 2021

Nudging people out of the coverage gap, cont.

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid In my last post , I noted that on May 5 CMS finalized a rule that patches a bit of the coverage gap afflicting low...
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Saturday, June 26, 2021

In May, CMS quietly moved to shrink the ACA's coverage gap in states that have refused to expand Medicaid

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Note: All xpostfactoid subscriptions are now through  Substack  alone ( still free ), though I will continue to cross-post on this site. If ...
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Elsewhere: the ACA survives and thrives

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 For BlueWaveNJ, I've overviewed the legal threats to the ACA -- just overcome and still pending; the subsidy boosts enacted in the Ame...
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Friday, June 25, 2021

In NJ Spotlight News: "Affordable Care or a Loan?"

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid I have an op-ed in NJ Spotlight News in support of a pending bill, A1023/S885 , that would end Medicaid Estate Re...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Obamacare enrollment at vaccination sites Part II: Navigators on their own, mostly

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid A month ago, I posited that the impressive drive to vaccinate all U.S. adults is also a golden opportunity to ins...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

In 2021, will attrition in the ACA marketplace go negative?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Until the pandemic struck, enrollment attrition throughout the coverage year in the ACA marketplace was an establi...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

ACA marketplace enrollment in 2020 exceeded the 2016 peak (on-exchange)

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Every June, the first "effectuated enrollment snapshot" of the ACA marketplace for February includes mon...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Three quarters of recent SEP enrollment on HealthCare.gov is in nonexpansion states

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid HHS announced yesterday that new enrollments in the emergency Special Enrollment Period that began on February 15...
Friday, June 11, 2021

How do you spell "affordable care"? ARP!

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid  I have an article up at healthinsurance.org that surveys how the American Rescue Plan changed ACA subsidies, the...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Obamacare mid-year enrollment is likely up 19% over past peak

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid see 6/18/21 update at bottom Charles Gaba estimates current enrollment in the ACA marketplace at 12.4 million. Th...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

The second-biggest health insurance exchange in the U.S. is...

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Almost from the (extremely rocky) inception of the ACA marketplace in fall 2013, CMS encouraged the development of...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2021

HHS devotes $4.8 billion to COVID-test the uninsured. P.S. How about insuring them?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid HHS announced today that it is dedicating $4.8 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to reimburse providers for p...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Putting the "Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act: A role for the IRS

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid  After the boost to ACA marketplace subsidies enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the largest...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Obamacare enrollment at vaccination sites, part 1

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid                                              Getting jabbed? Get covered too! 11 million uninsured Americans are e...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

The ACA as it should have been and may yet be: beyond premium subsidy boosts

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid The Wall Street Journal's Stephanie Armour succinctly captures where Democrats seem to be at on the healthcar...
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Thursday, May 20, 2021

One more note to subscribers: feedburner stopped

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 Dear xpostfactoid subscribers: as I noted a couple of weeks ago , Google is discontinuing feedburner, the subscriber service that's del...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

In New Jersey, silver plans are free or all but free up to 200% FPL

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When New Jersey launched supplemental state premium subsidies along with the launch of its state-based ACA marketplace, GetCoveredNJ, in the...
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Monday, May 17, 2021

Emergency SEP enrollment, shrinking attrition boost ACA marketplace enrollment beyond yearly top lines

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid In a report issued last September, Covered California, the golden state's ACA exchange, announced that effect...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

One quarter of the U.S. population is on Medicaid

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Time for an estimate of Medicaid enrollment growth since the eve of the pandemic, February 2020.  Monthly enrollme...
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