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Mostly about the ACA: Obamacare to Trumpcare to Bidencare.

Thursday, January 27, 2022

ACA marketplace enrollment up 45% in two years in nonexpansion states

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The final snapshot for the Open Enrollment Period on HealthCare.gov and ten state-based exchanges is in. We're almost done, though eigh...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

On climbing out of the ACA coverage gap

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The latest quarterly estimates of health insurance coverage from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show a drop in the uninsured r...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Fixing the ACA’s Medicare Glitch

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By Louise Norris and Andrew Sprung ------------- It's my pleasure to team up in this post with Louise Norris , a health insurance broker...
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Thursday, January 13, 2022

When an average deductible goes up, and a median deductible goes down, what shakes?

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid An ASPE brief released by HHS today, highlighting the relatively low out-of-pocket costs available to low-...
Friday, January 07, 2022

Breaking the BHP ring fence: New York's Hochul proposes Essential Plan eligibility to 250% FPL

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid This significant tidbit, gleaned from New York Governor Kathy Hochul's State of the State Address, was ...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Surprise billing protection is here! The promise (and a few limitations) of the No Surprises Act

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The No Surprises Act -- federal legislation protecting most enrollees in most health plans from most surprise billing -- went into effect on...
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

The ACA as pandemic safety net, Chapter 2 (2021)

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid As xpostfactoid is devoted mainly to tracking the implementation and metamorphosis of the Affordable Care A...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

At healthinsurance.org: Closeup of the ACA enrollment surge of 2021-2022

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At healthinsurance.org, I have a post up this morning reviewing the surge in ACA marketplace enrollment  triggered by the pandemic and furt...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Two thirds of ACA enrollment growth is in 11 nonexpansion states. Nearly half is in Florida and Texas

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CMS announced today that plan selections for 2022 in the ACA marketplace have reached an all-time high of 13.6 million. That's up from ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Is enrollment surge on GetCoveredNJ driven by off-exchange migration? Maybe not.

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ New Jersey's Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI)  reports t...
Monday, December 20, 2021

If BBB remains blocked and ARPA subsidies go poof, what can CMS do to mitigate the damage?

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid In the wake of Manchin's weekend declaration that he won't vote for the Build Back Better bill,  I ...
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Thursday, December 16, 2021

Swinging benchmarks, meaningful difference, market stability and market chaos

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid My last post focused on the steep premium hikes that can hit ACA marketplace enrollees if they passively l...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Longer Open Enrollment period in ACA marketplace provides a fail-safe for enrollment errors

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid Health insurance broker Jenny Chumbley Hogue, based near Dallas, highlights one good thing about the longer...
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Friday, December 10, 2021

ACA enrollment gains in OE 2022 may just consolidate gains from the emergency SEP

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CMS's Week 5 snapshot of ACA marketplace enrollment during the Open Enrollment season for 2022 shows an all-state enrollment increase o...
Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Few Medicare enrollees pay huge prescription drug costs out of pocket

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid The scaled-back prescription drug cost control measures belatedly added to the Build Back Better bill include a $...
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Monday, December 06, 2021

Talk to me if you became self-employed during the pandemic

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Last week I noted that the subsidy increases in the ACA marketplace provided last spring by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) were well-t...
Friday, December 03, 2021

Pointing low-income ACA marketplace shoppers toward Cost Sharing Reduction

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As I noted in my last post , the American Rescue Plan Act's boosts to ACA marketplace subsidies seem to have reversed a years-long slide...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

ARPA subsidy boosts in ACA marketplace reduced underinsurance, reversing a 'slide to bronze' at low incomes

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid   When the premium subsidy enhancements for the ACA marketplace that became law when the American Rescue Plan pass...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Is the ACA marketplace catching a surge in entrepreneurship?

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid The Wall Street Journal's Josh Mitchell and Kathryn Dill report that the pandemic has triggered a surge in se...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

From verb to noun, on the rebound

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid Some time early in our relationship, my wife set down a plate or cup in front of me and said with indulgent and so...
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