In NJ Spotlight News: "Happy Launch, GetCoveredNJ: Don’t Forget NJ FamilyCare"
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In New Jersey Spotlight News, I put in a plea that New Jersey's new state-based exchange GetCoveredNJ, and the coming "get covered" outreach during Open Enrollment, give due emphasis to Medicaid:
GetCoveredNJ and state officials should avoid repeating a mistake endemic to state exchanges: overemphasizing the private-plan marketplace at the expense of Medicaid (NJ FamilyCare)...
From the ACA’s passage in 2010 to the present, the private-plan marketplace has sucked up all the political passion. But the Medicaid expansion has insured far more people who would otherwise be uninsured. In New Jersey, as of September, 597,000 enrollees in NJ FamilyCare were rendered eligible by ACA criteria. About 175,000 New Jerseyans were subsidized in the private-plan marketplace...
Gov. Murphy and the state Legislature have used financial judo to fund improvements in the state’s health insurance marketplace, capturing funds that previously went to the federal government to finance enrollment assistance, advertising and supplementary subsidies. To best protect New Jerseyans from becoming uninsured during the current crisis, however, they need to focus equal energy on maximizing Medicaid enrollment.
We all have our hobbyhorses... here again is the full article in NJ Spotlight News.
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