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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Medicare Buy-in and the ACA analysis
I’m just popping in as I’m waiting for the last analysis of my 2nd dissertation paper to finish running through a couple thousand bootstraps (for those who don’t know what that means, consider yourself lucky!) But there is an interesting paper in the Journal of Risk and Insurance by Handon and Minicozzi, both employees of the …
Noun-Verb and Chapter 11
Rudy Guiliani has just filed for bankruptcy: NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy days after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation case. The only thing of value that he controls is his ability to flip on Trump. Will he or will he just continue to run up new instances …
Enrollment on Healthcare.gov
The first deadline for Open Enrollment passed late last week. People who signed up for coverage on Healthcare.gov by the end of day on December 15th will, as long as they make their initial payment, have coverage starting on January 1, 2024. People in every state except IDAHO have several more weeks to sign up …
Balloon Juice on Blue Sky
As Twitter is an ever increasing dumpster fire, people have migrated to multiple life boats. I’m over at Blue Sky as dmaanderson.bsky.social along with a good cluster of Jackals. I have four invites if anyone needs them E-mail me at firstname-lastname AT this website’s address and I’ll send them to you.