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Mostly about the ACA: Obamacare to Trumpcare to Bidencare.

Monday, February 28, 2022

Whither the off-exchange individual market? Tea leaves in New Jersey

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid One open question created by the American Rescue Plan Act's boost to ACA marketplace subsidies is the e...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

New Jersey launches year-round marketplace enrollment at incomes below 200% FPL

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Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid My last post delved into CMS's motives and goals in establishing continuous year-round enrollment for ...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Why HealthCare.gov is offering year-round enrollment at low incomes

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CMS has soft-launched a new "monthly special enrollment period" (SEP) for health insurance seekers with incomes below 150% of the ...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Flowers in the graveyard: Health Policy Valentines 2022

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Subscribe to xpostfactoid U.S. healthcare policy is no rose garden, but this year's HealthPolicyValentines salute a few sweet blossoms. ...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

In New Mexico, a Midas touch has a double edge

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Subscribe to (free) xpostfactoid Let's take one more look at enrollment results in New Mexico's ACA marketplace, where extreme silve...
Friday, February 04, 2022

In 2022, New Mexicans grabbed the gold in the ACA marketplace

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Back in mid-October, I devoted a handful of posts ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) to New Mexico's great ACA marketplace experiment: instructing insurers t...
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...
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