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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
The broker's tale: Louise Norris on skewed incentives in the ACA marketplace
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
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
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?
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
A huge increase in low-income ACA marketplace enrollment in nonexpansion states
More than half of all ACA SEP enrollment is in nonexpansion states
Making the ACA work 2014-2016: Administrative roads not taken
Nudging people out of the coverage gap, cont.
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
One quarter of the U.S. population is on Medicaid
ARPA should reduce underinsurance in the ACA marketplace
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?
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 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
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