Ezra Klein makes a good point about next week and Obamacare implementation — the mechanics are going to be messy: Jan. 1 isn’t likely to be a glitch-free day for Obamacare. There will be people who try to use their insurance and find they can’t, or it’s not the plan they meant to buy, or …
Useful links
Whatifpost.com is a healthcare blog that does a nice job of breaking down the Exchanges, especially for the people who don’t get a consistent salary: 5. For those living in states that don’t expand Medicaid: If you overestimate your income, you don’t have to repay anything True to the stereotype of the starving artist, many …
2009, Blue Dogs and 218
The National Journal reports the demise of the Blue Dogs as Rep Mathesion (D-UT) is retiring: Matheson’s retirement continues the decline of two overlapping Democratic groups: Blue Dogs and Democrats who opposed Nancy Pelosi’s bid to continue leading their caucus after the electoral shellacking of 2010. There are just 15 Blue Dog Democrats in the House …
Mandate exemption expansion
By training I was a policy guy. By career, I’m a symbolic analytical plumber. By hobby, I’m a political junkie. The recent announcement that individuals whose non-PPACA compliant individual plans are being cancelled on Jan. 1, 2014 is first and foremost a political decision with plumbing and policy impacts. Ezra Klein from earlier this week: …
Good news everybody
Via Politico: More than one million Americans signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act during the first three weeks of December, including 500,000 through the federal exchange, President Barack Obama announced Friday. Via ABC News: The Obama administration says nearly 3.9 million people have qualified for coverage through the health care law’s …
Will you stay or will you go
Networks participation is extraordinarily plastic. Providers can leave networks at will, and entry can be anywhere from signing a new contract to being invited in to being wined, dined and sixty-nined until the provider agrees to participate. In the past year for Mayhew Insurance, providers have left our primary commercial (non-Exchange) network for the following reasons: …
Changing plans — not just for the Exchanges
Plan designs change all the time. That is why the whole brouhaha over the “If you like your plan, you can keep it” was so amazingly stupid but effective. As I was digging for articles for a post that I want to write on narrow networks, I saw this interesting piece from northwestern Pennsylvania: It’s …
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