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20/01/2022

For this one I teamed up with Louise Norris, who's considered every anomalous and counterintuitive enrollment scenario that can be imagined.

A proposal to help married ACA marketplace enrollees when one ages into Medicare

28/12/2021

Americans in need of health insurance have responded to a major increase in marketplace subsidies created by the American Rescue Plan.

11/12/2021

In Open Enrollment 2022, nonexpansion states are driving ACA marketplace enrollment growth.

03/12/2021

The American Rescue Plan reversed a long slide in takeup of Cost Sharing Reduction at low incomes.

30/11/2021

The ARPA subsidy boosts for ACA marketplace plans can just in time for The Great Resignation.

27/11/2021

Spotlight again on the lowest-income enrollees in the ACA marketplace in nonexpansion states.

Updated with a recap of essential facts about the enrolled population, in nonexpansion states and nationwide.

During the 2021 SEP, 42% of marketplace enrollees in nonexpansion states had incomes in the 100-138% FPL range

26/10/2021

New Mexico points the way for a national regulatory fix for the ACA marketplace

28/09/2021

The ARP's enhanced health insurance subsidies prompted a major surge in new marketplace enrollments and plan upgrades during this year's SEP. Will the surge continue during open enrollment?

15/09/2021

...and, perhaps more importantly, make Medicare essentially free to enrollees with incomes below 200% FPL

Passage of the Improving Medicare Coverage Act would be a boon to many of the 21 million Americans between the ages of 60 and 64, particularly the roughly 1.6 million who are uninsured.

12/09/2021

Dropping the Medicare eligibility age to 60 could hurt low-income people ages 60-64 unless other changes to Medicare are made.

Dropping the Medicare eligibility age could hurt low income people unless other changes are made

12/09/2021

U.S. life spans, which have fallen behind those in Europe, are telling us something important about American society.

02/09/2021

How will enhanced traditional Medicare change the MA and Medigap markets?

01/09/2021

The uninsured rate may downticked in 2020, but NHIS finds the change insignificant.

Medicaid up, ESI down; the NHIS doesn't show it.

19/08/2021

States that have required insurers to price gold plans below silver have increased value for enrollees

16/08/2021

Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.

06/08/2021

Can a state seeking to remake its ACA marketplace get credit for the federal government for what it might have done if not for the proposed plan?

Can states seeking to change their ACA markets get fiscal credit for what they might have done?

03/08/2021

Ignorance of what the ACA has to offer and how it works is pervasive, even as coverage becomes much more affordable.

ACA marketplace applicants with incomes near 100% FPL in nonexpansion states are unlikely to overestimate income

23/07/2021

Why didn't Wisconsin share in the strong Obamacare enrollment growth that happened in other nonexpansion states in 2020 and 2021?