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Reporters provide insight into causes of insurance marketplace glitches

Image by kelp via flickr. As one of my colleagues emailed me the other day: “Life’s a glitch.” We know we’ll be hearing A LOT more about the health care marketplace glitches, including testimony at...

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Delaying Affordable Care Act not as simple as it sounds

With all the website woes, you are going to hear a lot more about “delaying” the Affordable Care Act. But what “delay” means is in the eye of the beholder – or maybe in the political affiliation of the...

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Questions remain despite latest ACA enrollment numbers, projections

The latest ACA enrollment report (and the CBO projection that 6 million people would sign up for exchange coverage by March 31) is a classic half-full, half empty scenario. Half full because the 3.3...

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Looking at the people behind the Kentucky insurance numbers

Image by pds209 via flickr. Kentucky has gotten a lot of attention for the largely unexpected success of its health insurance exchange. The Washington Post’s Stephanie McCrummen has looked at another...

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Find out if a ‘deductible’ is really a deductible

One of the “simple” aspects of health insurance is – naturally – not always so simple. There’s been a lot of talk about high deductibles in marketplace plans – higher than what most of us pay if we...

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Covering ACA numbers? The semantics matter

Kyle Cheney With big new sign-up numbers coming out of the state and federal exchanges, Politico health care reporter Kyle Cheney reports on what the numbers mean. Enrolled? Selected? Covered? The...

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Drilling down into numbers uncovers Marketplace glitch

Don Sapatkin Ten days before the (expected) close of open enrollment, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the federal exchange’s window-shopping tool – the one that the administration encourages...

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What we know – and don’t know – about Marketplace enrollment

We posted yesterday on what we knew about enrollment as we waited for the updated HHS report – which of course then came out. … So here are a few key points: Marketplace enrollment: It’s a bit over 8...

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Reviewing patterns in marketplace insurance pools

Photo by Thomas Hawk via Flickr.com. Back when states were deciding whether to run their own exchanges or let the feds do it, they also had to make a lot of decisions about how their exchanges would...

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Things to keep in mind as we anticipate the King v. Burwell ruling

Photo by dbking via Flickr We’ve put up a tip sheet and written about the King v. Burwell case, but now that the ruling is imminent, we wanted to bring one more good one-stop-shopping resource to your...

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D.C. chapter learns how ACA affects craft brewery, other small businesses

Photo: Phil Galewitz About 25 Washington, D.C., area journalists met on Sept. 30 to learn about how the Affordable Care Act was affecting a local brewery and discover how the district’s health...

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Things to consider when covering recent departures from the ACA marketplace

Photo: Peg via Flickr Decisions by United Healthcare, Humana and now Aetna to shrink their footprint in the ACA exchanges – along with the collapse of the most of the co-ops – are likely to...

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Get county-level data to report on competition in insurance marketplace

As large insurers, such as United Healthcare, Humana and Aetna, drop out of the Healthcare.gov marketplace, consumers are left with fewer and fewer choices, especially in certain geographic areas....

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ACA dates to add to your coverage calendar

The fourth open enrollment season of the Affordable Care Act – for coverage in 2017 – begins on Nov. 1. Here are four key dates to remember: Nov. 1, 2016: Open Enrollment starts. This is the first day...

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Need help navigating the current health care premium controversy?

Photo: Mike Licht via Flickr Buying health insurance – or understanding what our plans cover and how much we have to pay – isn’t easy. Moreover, the people we interview about their health plans and ACA...

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Covering ACA numbers? The semantics matter

Kyle Cheney With big new sign-up numbers coming out of the state and federal exchanges, Politico health care reporter Kyle Cheney reports on what the numbers mean. Enrolled? Selected? Covered? The...

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Drilling down into numbers uncovers Marketplace glitch

Don Sapatkin Ten days before the (expected) close of open enrollment, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the federal exchange’s window-shopping tool – the one that the administration encourages...

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What we know – and don’t know – about Marketplace enrollment

We posted yesterday on what we knew about enrollment as we waited for the updated HHS report – which of course then came out. … So here are a few key points: Marketplace enrollment: It’s a bit over 8...

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Reviewing patterns in marketplace insurance pools

Photo by Thomas Hawk via Flickr.com. Back when states were deciding whether to run their own exchanges or let the feds do it, they also had to make a lot of decisions about how their exchanges would...

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Things to keep in mind as we anticipate the King v. Burwell ruling

Photo by dbking via Flickr We’ve put up a tip sheet and written about the King v. Burwell case, but now that the ruling is imminent, we wanted to bring one more good one-stop-shopping resource to your...

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