Ohio has voted to make reproductive autonomy a core constitutional right. I’ve seen enough: in a victory for the pro-choice side, Ohio Issue 1, a measure to establish a right to an abortion in the state constitution, passes. — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2023 Virginia Democrats are holding the state Senate at the very …
ACA Open Enrollment Begins Today
The Affordable Care Act’s Open Enrollment Period begins today. Individuals must sign up by 11:59 PM PST December 15. 2023 to have an ACA policy that starts on January 1, 2024. Almost every state on either Healthcare.gov or their own marketplace will run open enrollment through at least part of January. Open Enrollment is when …
VC backed insurers in the ACA
Yesterday TF79 asked a great question about Venture Capital (VC) backed insurers in comments: “The VC backed insurers that attempted to buy marketshare without a concern of profitability…” can you expand on this? I would have assumed that VC’s in general would be hyper-focused on profitability at the exclusion of all else. Are they taking …
Systemic risk in the ACA risk adjustment market
Over the weekend, Modern Healthcare’s Nona Tepper wrote a story on the failures of Bright Healthcare and Friday Health Plans have an impact on other ACA insurers: Financially struggling Bright Health Group is short $380.2 million owed to exchange carriers in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia, CMS wrote in a notice. Bankrupt …
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Little wins to improve outcomes
Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) released the annual Healthcare.gov Public Use Files (PUFs). I use these PUFs all the time for my research and will be processing them over the next week or so. I want to highlight one of the PUFs as it had three new columns this year. The Plan …
Open Enrollment notes
We are in open enrollment season for health insurance. The Medicare Annual Enrollment Period started last week. The Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment Period starts next week. Many companies are offering their employees an open enrollment period sometime soon. I just want to highlight a few things. 1) CHOICE IS TOUGH — we have a …
Another lawyer getting another plea deal
And yet another lawyer, this one an expert on traffic citation law, is getting a plea deal for couping in Georgia. Only the best people! Open Thread
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