Politico reports that President Trump is itching to stop paying the Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies for on-Exchange policies bought by people with incomes between 100% to 250% Federal Poverty Line (FPL). This is a threat with a limited time frame. President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants to end payments of key Obamacare subsidies, …
Last night’s healthcare news
Just a few things in the swirl of chaos that I was aware of but did not have the time nor the inclination to write about as the news was breaking: 1) Seema Verma and CSR in the LA Times 2) The Senate has not received the ACHA yet 3) Defending Joe Lieberman 4) Senator …
CMS incidentally drops the truth on monkey-wrenching
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a technical release concerning the payment of Basic Health Plan (BHP) funds to Minnesota and New York. They accidentally dropped an official government baseline of what they expected premiums on the Qualified Health Plans to have been absent significant monkey-wrenching. For the trend factor we will use …
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Shame as a limiting constraint
It is always worthwhile to read through the back archives of the now defunct Kung Fu Monkey. Today’s relevant post is on shame as a constraint. It was written in 2007 responding to the US Attorney firing scandal as they weren’t willing to railroad people for non-existent voter fraud. I think it is a relevant …
Open Thread
I was flipping a coin between this and the Kevin Bacon Animal House All is Well memes. Open thread
Words to look for sabotage of the ACA
Charles Gaba is doing his usual exceptional work of tracking rate increase requests from insurers that want to sell plans on Exchange. He recently highlighted Oregon’s initial requests. As I was reading through the actuarial summaries, the different insurers modeled sabotage risk differently. Two carriers effectively discounted it. The rest are extremely concerned. I will …
Pens vs. Sens open thread
Let’s avoid talking about the newest round of crazy that has been dropped on us by the Orange Gibbon and enjoy a great hockey game tonight! ** ** This post written on Monday evening with no knowledge of what the cray-cray will be but high confidence that there will be said crazy. …