Small enrollment shifts are not so small: Zooming in from the GAO's 30,000 foot view of the ACA marketplace
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It struck me, looking at the big-picture breakouts of 2017-2018 enrollment in healthcare.gov states presented in the GAO report, that shifts that I have puzzled over under a microscope look small in aggregate. Viewed the other way round, changes that look small in aggregate mask some significant shifts among enrollees in ethnicity, income and age. A few examples below, mostly from the healthcare.gov states that the GAO focused on (while exposing HHS's willful management failures). I'm leaving aside a not-so-small shift in metal level selection that I've pretty much beaten to death, e.g.,
Small enrollment shifts are not so small: Zooming in from the GAO's 30,000 foot view of the ACA marketplace
Small enrollment shifts are not so small…
Small enrollment shifts are not so small: Zooming in from the GAO's 30,000 foot view of the ACA marketplace
It struck me, looking at the big-picture breakouts of 2017-2018 enrollment in healthcare.gov states presented in the GAO report, that shifts that I have puzzled over under a microscope look small in aggregate. Viewed the other way round, changes that look small in aggregate mask some significant shifts among enrollees in ethnicity, income and age. A few examples below, mostly from the healthcare.gov states that the GAO focused on (while exposing HHS's willful management failures). I'm leaving aside a not-so-small shift in metal level selection that I've pretty much beaten to death, e.g.,