Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the final enrollment for the 2024 Open Enrollment Period for the ACA: Marketplace and Consumer Type Cumulative 2024 OEP Plan Selections Total: All Marketplaces 21,310,538 New Consumers 5,045,290 Returning Consumers 16,265,248 The Confederacy has substantial …
Brand to Generic spreads
Stat News has an article on a DOD IG report on the White House pharmacy during the Trump Administration. Lots of things stood out to me but one that is relevant for a lot of insurance design is the brand to generic spread: White House medical staff also regularly asked for brand name medications like …
Go get enrolled!
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 …