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Medicaid expansion states on HealthCare.gov account for nearly all enrollment losses in 2019

Two key factors in state-by-state ACA enrollment performance

About that "late enrollment surge"

A key factor in state-by-state enrollment performance on HealthCare.gov

The invisible primary for judicial repeal of the ACA

Blue waivers! Synthetic silver loading, anyone?

Is New Jersey's unsubsidized marketplace enrollment migrating off-exchange?

Silver loading improves with age

Waiving the ACA marketplace away (at healthinsurance.org)

We're in Cassidy-Collinsville, Chapter 2

Do CMS's new "waiver concepts" violate even the new waiver guidance?

In ACA marketplace, more discount counties -- but which counties count?

Lower benchmark premiums may contribute to reduced on-exchange enrollment in 2019

Drop in low income uninsured is partly due to drop in low income population

How the ACA marketplace falls short of Medicare

Slow start to Open Enrollment 2019

New Medicaid expansion + increased silver loading should improve ACA marketplace risk pools

Gold in Texas's broad empty spaces

ACA probably saved, along with democracy

Miracle on 45's Watch

Silver loading 2019: What's on offer in the nation's highest-enrollment counties

Bob Hugin, healthcare moderate?

CMS guidance on ACA innovation waivers requires an ACA-compliant benchmark

Republicans have already undercut ACA protections for people with pre-existing conditions

In which Larry Levitt highlights the missing link in our fevered debate over preexisting conditions

Just two Pinocchios for House Republicans who claim they've protected people with preexisting conditions

A glance at silver loading in Covered California 2019

The pre-existing condition that matters most is poverty or near-poverty

Four healthcare questions for Bob Hugin

For high out-of-pocket costs in employer plans, 3 shock absorbers

Framing the battle for the House in New Jersey: Healthcare!

At HIO: What if Josh Hawley isn't lying?

Map of Malfunction: Health Wonk Review

A small refuge from the Trump administration's public charge cruelty

What if Josh Hawley and friends do preserve protections for people with pre-existing conditions?

In New Jersey's 2019 ACA marketplace, fruits of reinsurance, individual mandate, and silver loading

Re-litigating the ACA repeal bills of 2017: Pre-existing conditions and beyond

Congressional races are all about "pre-existing conditions." Gubernatorial races spotlight Medicaid

Obama's ACA sabotage claims: Checking the AP fact-checkers

The pre-existing conditions proxy war

Everything you always wanted to know about ACA marketplace enrollment 2018

New Jersey balance billing protection law is strong on scheduled procedures

Bring back the PPACA!

New Jersey's new balance billing protection law: How complete is the protection?

NHIS puts individual market angst in perspective

Small enrollment shifts are not so small: Zooming in from the GAO's 30,000 foot view of the ACA marketplace

GAO highlights the silver load offset to HHS sabotage

Alex Azar's poison pitch to the unsubsidized uninsured

Tom MacArthur gutted ACA protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Can Andy Kim make the charge stick?

Good News in New Jersey: CMS approves state reinsurance waiver

Surprise! ACA marketplace sabotage hit the most vulnerable hard

Silver loading vs. sabotage in non-expansion states

Unsubsidized on-exchange enrollment is also shrinking fast

Did CMS just bless silver loading? Or prepare to end it?

Psst, red states, want to destroy your ACA-compliant market? Set strict standards for short-term plans

Unsubsidized, but in subsidy range, in the ACA marketplace

Shifts in the enrollment population in the ACA marketplace in 2018

A CMS misinformation byte is getting into the woodwork

Covered California's silver loading enrollment boost mirrors HealthCare.gov's

True Image/pictured lies: The CMS attack on ACA navigators

No, CMS, ACA marketplace enrollment isn't up this year, and doesn't justify navigator funding cuts

Some CMS-y data for the ACA marketplace

Sabotage triage: New Jersey's instructions to individual market health insurers

Unsubsidized ACA marketplace enrollees drop out early

Six ways New Jersey is fighting off Obamacare sabotage

Time for New Jersey's Health Insurers to Do Their Part to Counter ACA Sabotage

Off-exchange ACA enrollment dropped 20% in 2017. Why did unsubsidized on-exchange stay stable?

Hispanic Enrollment on HealthCare.gov up 8% in 2018

ACA marketplace enrollment, 2018: Answers and questions

Actuarial Value in the ACA Marketplace: Down a bit

Steep enrollment drops in New Jersey's individual market

ACA heresy at noon

Virginia's CSR load should be cut more than in half in 2019

New Jersey's individual market needs some off-exchange discounts in 2019

Medicare expansion: An elastic idea for Democrats

When ACA marketplace coverage is cheaper than Medicaid

Virginia Medicaid expansion will cut ACA marketplace enrollment by 100,000-plus

About that victory lap, PA Insurance Department....

ACA sabotage boomerang, type 3

The old machine hums on

New Jersey takes strong action against ACA sabotage: A look-back

NJ for Health Care Coalition urges Gov. Murphy: Protect our care. Sign these bills

How Democratic candidates should talk about healthcare

Trump's CSR cutoff boosted ACA enrollment in the 300-400% FPL income bracket

Trump's CSR cutoff is still reverberating

In New Jersey, ACA reinsurance or....?

Four ways states can leverage ACA sabotage

In Health Affairs: If CMS ends silver loading

A "modernist' C.S. Lewis?

Melt like wax into God or be born into her womb?

"New Jersey is poised to fight off ACA sabotage. Is Gov. Murphy on board?"

Outside our diseased political realm...

Virtually no enrollment loss in state-based ACA exchanges in 2018

Will Trump's cutoff of CSR reimbursement boost ACA enrollment by 2-3 million, per CBO?

Silver loading yields some gold dividends in Kansas

George Orwell's mirror for American leaders

Rational choice in the ACA marketplace, Pennsylvania 2018 edition

A free silver plan with a $0 deductible...What's not to like?

Two NJ healthcare bills awaiting Gov. Murphy's signature should reduce premiums by 20-30% in the individual market

If Seema Verma bans silver loading, how many ACA marketplace enrollees will suffer?

Does marketplace resilience show creator brilliance? Not quite, Krugman

Getting rid of Trump on the cheap

New Jersey can sabotage-proof its ACA marketplace next week

"Strong" CSR takeup dropped only slightly on HealthCare.gov in 2018

Could Trump's ACA sabotage pave the way to a strong public option?

Open thread: How Trump's cutoff of CSR funding affected Maryland enrollment

A downside to silver loading: CSR takeup drops in Maryland

Elizabeth Warren roars at health insurers, but her ACA 2.0 offers them a pretty sweet deal

Health Insurers' risk corridor suits could seek a lot more than $12.3 billion

Who'd be hurt by restored federal CSR funding? A snapshot from Maryland

Inflation that tracks your march to death

We're not in ACA Repeal-and-Replaceville. We're in Cassidy-Collinstown

Can Medicare Advantage plans lower enrollees' out-of-pocket costs? A talk with Kaiser's Juliette Cubanski

Getting creamed in New Jersey: Testimony of the unsubsidized

New Jersey bill aims to block Trump admin's proposed rule for Association Health Plans

Hey Senator Warren, Medicare Extra fills your prescription

Medicare Extra creates an all-payer system -- via a bank shot for employers

Timothy Jost and Harold Pollack weigh in on Medicare Extra

The ACA marketplace is damaged and taking new hits...but it's not a high risk pool and probably won't be

The catastrophic option in a degrading market for health insurance

On HealthCare.gov, CSR takeup rose steadily from 2015 through 2017

Health Policy Valentines 2018

Think ACA enrollment is complicated? Try Medicare

We won, now what? My account of Health Action 2018 at Crooked Media

What I learned at Health Action 2018

At Health Action 2018, a focus on racial discrimination in healthcare

Elizabeth Warren is faking it on healthcare

Subsidy-eligible, but unsubsidized

How Phil Murphy can counteract ACA sabotage in New Jersey

There's Martin Luther King's dream. Then there's his American reality principle

Choosing a metal level in the CSR-addled Maryland marketplace: Not bad, enrollees!

Subsidized ACA marketplace enrollment ROSE 2% in Maryland in 2018

You may balance-bill me at will: This hospital contract is literally bulletproof

Maryland ACA enrollment spotlights effects of Trump's CSR sabotage

In which Idaho offers a quarter loaf to its uninsured poor

A Tralfamadorian view of the U.S. economy from James C. Scott