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qualified health plan
Prediction: QHP enrollment will swell by 25 percent
October 15, 2015 – Before I go any further, let me say this flat out: No. Actual exchange enrollments in 2016 are not going to reach the CBO's 21 million…
How red states propped up HealthCare.gov
March 31, 2015 – Red-state governors and legislatures that refused the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion were probably aiming to help the ACA die the…
Americans know how to shop (even for insurance)
February 27, 2015 – Evidence from the 2014-2015 open enrollment period provides evidence that most buyers are making rational decisions and finding coverage…
Winner, winner, chicken dinner
February 4, 2015 – Of federal marketplace plan offerings that increased in premium, 70 percent had at least one better alternative. Plan offerings were…
Open enrollment’s ‘missing persons’
January 20, 2015 – Last spring I was shouting from the rooftops about off-exchange QHP enrollments at a time when most reporters (and especially ACA…
2015 projection: 12 million will enroll in QHPs
November 16, 2014 – The HHS Department thinks there will be about 9.1 million paying QHP enrollees out of about 10.4 million total. CBO is projecting 13…
Making a mountain out of 7 million QHPs
November 8, 2014 – The uninsured slice has dropped by around 26 percent in just the first year of the exchanges/Medicaid expansion being operational. That's…
Is Obamacare ‘in hiding’ until after the election?
October 23, 2014 – If this information was being kept under wraps for purely political reasons, they're doing a pretty poor job of it. Nevada is moving to the…
Finally: an escape from lifetime maximums
October 16, 2013 – Nathan Wilkes is a Colorado father who came face-to-face with the realities of lifetime maximum benefits on health insurance policies…