I'm a research associate at Duke University Margolis Center. I used to be Richard Mayhew, a mid-level bureaucrat at UPMC Health Plan. I started writing here and have not found a reason to stop.
Record day continues as consumers rush to #GetCoveredNow. More than 3M visits to http://t.co/eTfU7hBJUR and 1M calls as of 8pm. — HealthCare.gov (@HealthCareGov) April 1, 2014 Regular open enrollment in all areas of the continental United States for Exchange coverage is done. And the numbers are massive. I was guessing 6.5 to 7.0 million […]
A few important things for this morning: #ACASurge is for real. Today is the last day to get an application started on healthcare.gov Same Facts has an amazing critique of intelligent design A friend observes: “I give my 2 year old a nutritious food he hasn’t had before and he smells it, squishes it […]
The #ACAsurge is pushing enrollment up to at least a confirmed 6.1 million enrollments as of Thursday afternoon. Charles Gbaba is projecting slightly more than 6.75 million enrollments on the Exchange. This is good news. However for there is a headline we’ll see in the last week of April or the first week of May […]
On January 24th, I wrote the following: This data strongly implies one million people enrolled for the February 1st coverage start date during the month of January. That is a minimal pressure deadline as someone who was healthy enough to not get in on the December rush is probably healthy enough to not really need […]
The Hill reports that a gaggle of Democratic Senators will be introducing a modification to PPACA shortly. The first bill from the group of Democrats would add a new, cheaper option, a copper plan, to ObamaCare’s existing menu of platinum, gold, silver and bronze plans. The bill also seeks to spur competition in the marketplaces […]
From ACASignups.net Here you go…hot off the presses…um, Twitter-feed, anyway… @charles_gaba MT @igorvolsky: BREAKING: Obama says on a call that 6 million people have enrolled in Obamacare. — Seth Trueger (@MDaware) March 27, 2014 Things are moving VERY quickly now… For example, I just added this update from the WSJ, which claims 100K QHPs per […]
As expected there has been a minor extension to the deadline for the 2014 open enrollment period on the Exchange. People who have accounts set-up on Healthcare.gov by March 31st but have not selected a plan will get a few extra weeks if they ask for it. Plans selected in those extra weeks will be […]
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