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On the dangers of auto-enrollment...and the Jan. 15 fail-safe

ACA enrollment gains in OE 2022 may just consolidate gains from the emergency SEP

A surge in entrepreneurship -- and a surge in ACA Marketplace enrollment

Signposting likely Medicaid eligibility without muddling the message

The broker's tale: Louise Norris on skewed incentives in the ACA marketplace

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The broker's tale: Louise Norris on skewed incentives in the ACA marketplace

Happy day(s) are here again?

Under Biden, HealthCare.gov maintains its Trump era tilt toward commercial insurance brokers

HealthSherpa shows how to shrink the coverage gap

Premiums down, out-of-pocket costs up up up: The post-ARPA case for maximal silver loading

Open enrollment 2022! Marketplace loaded for bear, but bear traps remain

Albuquerque vs. Miami, or platinum vs. silver benchmark in the ACA marketplace

If Democrats fail to enhance the ACA or remove the coverage gap, what can the Biden administration do?

New Mexico models a platinum benchmark for the ACA marketplace

bewellnm launches with *really* cheap gold plans; some confusion at low incomes likely

In which the Kaiser Family Foundation moves to quell a PhRMA disinformation campaign

Wonder of wonders: National balance billing protection for consumers that (probably) won't increase healthcare costs

Rapid marketplace enrollment growth in nonexpansion states, revisited

Even with balance-billing protection, a tiered network may cause tears

Independence Blue Cross sells only 24-carat gold plans in Philadelphia and surrounding counties

Notes from the SEP: On record marketplace enrollment in August 2021

Dropping the Medicare age to 60 also requires...

Viewing the uninsured rate through foggy lenses

How will Medicare enhancement change the current public-private Medicare ecosystem?

NHIS: No shift from private to public insurance?

Is the uninsured rate flat since 2019, or down a bit?

What's the effect of a gold benchmark in the ACA marketplace? Three states tell a tale. And a platinum benchmark is coming.

On staying out of the coverage gap: expert advice

Total marketplace enrollment likely approaches 13 million

Maximizing the ACA Innovation Waiver: Biosimilar silver loading, anyone?

ACA enrollment under ARPA: The view from near 100% FPL (and San Antonio)

A Wisconsin window on the ACA coverage gap in pandemic time

Obamacare enrollment in nonexpansion states is up 26% year-over-year and 41% since June 2019 (estimate)

A huge increase in low-income ACA marketplace enrollment in nonexpansion states

More than half of all ACA SEP enrollment is in nonexpansion states

Democrat to voters: "Friend, this past year, we saw just how important Medicaid expansion was to hard-working..."

Making the ACA work 2014-2016: Administrative roads not taken

Nudging people out of the coverage gap, cont.

In May, CMS quietly moved to shrink the ACA's coverage gap in states that have refused to expand Medicaid

Elsewhere: the ACA survives and thrives

In NJ Spotlight News: "Affordable Care or a Loan?"

Obamacare enrollment at vaccination sites Part II: Navigators on their own, mostly

In 2021, will attrition in the ACA marketplace go negative?

ACA marketplace enrollment in 2020 exceeded the 2016 peak (on-exchange)

Three quarters of recent SEP enrollment on HealthCare.gov is in nonexpansion states

How do you spell "affordable care"? ARP!

Obamacare mid-year enrollment is likely up 19% over past peak

The second-biggest health insurance exchange in the U.S. is...

HHS devotes $4.8 billion to COVID-test the uninsured. P.S. How about insuring them?

Putting the "Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act: A role for the IRS

Obamacare enrollment at vaccination sites, part 1

The ACA as it should have been and may yet be: beyond premium subsidy boosts

One more note to subscribers: feedburner stopped

In New Jersey, silver plans are free or all but free up to 200% FPL

Emergency SEP enrollment, shrinking attrition boost ACA marketplace enrollment beyond yearly top lines

One quarter of the U.S. population is on Medicaid

ARPA should reduce underinsurance in the ACA marketplace

A note to subscribers

How much will free benchmark silver plans boost ACA marketplace enrollment in nonexpansion states?

UI effect? ACA marketplace enrollment soared at low incomes in nonexpansion states in 2021

"How stupid is American healthcare?"

Free silver plans at incomes above 150% FPL

The dark side of free bronze plans: Erosion of CSR silver enrollment accelerates

ACA 2.0 -- how's it going so far?

Can free silver close much of the "upper coverage gap" in nonexpansion states?

In nonexpansion states, what percentage of near-poor adults (100-138% FPL) enroll in marketplace coverage?

Where Medicaid enrollment growth may be concentrated

ACA's emergency Special Enrollment Period most effective in states that have not expanded Medicaid

Is the U.S. uninsured rate at an all-time low?

Will 60-64 year-olds have a choice between Medicare and Obamacare? What will that look like?

An American Rescue Plan benefit you'll have to wait for

Should younger enrollees in the ACA marketplace be more heavily subsidized?

Medicaid expansion enrollment grew nearly 30% year-over-year in 19-state sample

The American Rescue Plan Act makes free coverage available to many below 100% FPL in nonexpansion states

In Memoriam: Jules B. Sprung

The ACA as it should have been -- sort of, for a while at least

The Kaiser Family Foundation is trying to tell us something

Does mandatory maximum silver loading require a risk adjustment fix?

In Health Affairs: The Biden administration should complete the silver loading revolution

In The American Prospect: My Take on Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War

Medicaid enrollment likely reaches 81 million in January

Obama's assumptions about healthcare reform, in 2009 and today

A public option by inches: Bennet and Kaine's Medicare-X

Health Policy Valentines 2021: Institutional edition

Obama's inside-out view of the public option

Under Covid relief bill, no Obamacare enrollee should have coverage less than valuable than gold

Raised minimum wage creates an imperative to improve ACA marketplace subsidies at low incomes

Estimate: ACA Medicaid expansion enrollment may have grown 25% from February to December 2020

Medicaid enrollment likely near 80 million in December

ACA marketplace coverage can be as generous as the Biden administration wants it to be

ACA Hunger Games, Part II

If Democrats get skimpy with ACA enhancement, who should get half a loaf?

The 117th Congress should end Medicaid Estate Recovery for the ACA Medicaid expansion population

Balance billing arbitration tilts toward providers in New Jersey -- less so in new federal law