BREAKING: The Mississippi House just passed Medicaid expansion by a 96-20 vote. That’s more than enough to overcome a veto from Gov. Tate Reeves. It now heads to the Senate. Background: https://t.co/exDyzFAcJX — Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) February 28, 2024 The Mississippi bill text requested that the state file a Section 1115 waiver to expand Medicaid …
Idaho wants to kidney-ize its hospitals
Idaho’s House has a Medicaid expansion modification bill under consideration. The big thing it wants is work requirements. It is unlikely to get that without an act of Congress given the litigation that went against work requirements for Medicaid during the Trump administration. However, it also wants to transfer a lot of funds to its …
Lots of people on the ACA down South
Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the final enrollment for the 2024 Open Enrollment Period for the ACA: Marketplace and Consumer Type Cumulative 2024 OEP Plan Selections Total: All Marketplaces 21,310,538 New Consumers 5,045,290 Returning Consumers 16,265,248 The Confederacy has substantial …
Brand to Generic spreads
Stat News has an article on a DOD IG report on the White House pharmacy during the Trump Administration. Lots of things stood out to me but one that is relevant for a lot of insurance design is the brand to generic spread: White House medical staff also regularly asked for brand name medications like …
Go get enrolled!
ACA Open Enrollment in most states ends by the end of the day today. Go sign up or at least get started. Otherwise, you’ll need a Special Enrollment Period to get insurance if you aren’t covered or have insurance that you don’t like. Just go do it!
ACA enrollment and embedding
Last semester, I taught a course on US health insurance reform politics and policy for Duke Sanford School of Public Policy students. One option for the final was to respond to a prompt that asked if the ACA is sufficienctly embedded into the US health care and political system that it is only subject to …
Florida to Outsource the NO Function to Canada
Florida just received approval from the FDA to engage in bulk drug imports from Canada. Florida believes that if they can buy a limited set of prescription drugs at Canadian prices, the state will save oodles and oodles of money. The state is relying on the Canadian willingness and ability to credibly say “NO, not …
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