States have plenty of choices to make regarding the ACA individual market in their state. The biggest choice is whether or not the state will expand Medicaid. After that there are a lot of mid-level choices including the decision to operate a state based marketplace (SBM) or rely on Healthcare.gov as well as the decision …
Mortality and education disparities
Just saw this graph and it is making me say WOW Case and Deaton are looking at the life expectancy of Americans at age 25 over time. They stratify on a single variable — does a person have at least a 4 year degree. AND WOW! Americans with at least a 4 year degree look …
North Carolina Medicaid Expansion for December 1st
The state of North Carolina will start paying Medicaid claims for enrolled individuals ages 19-64 who earn under 138% Federal Poverty Level (FPL) as of December 1, 2023. This will mean a lot of folks who likely would have been determined to be ineligible for full benefits for Medicaid will be redetermined to be …
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Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina is finally coming
Last spring, North Carolina passed a law that would expand Medicaid to 138% FPL as part of the ACA. Medicaid Expansion’s start date was up in the air. The law did not set a date. Instead Medicaid Expansion start was dependent on a state budget getting passed. The state government took steps to make the …
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Senator Menendez (D-NJ) indicted for corruption (again)
The Department of Justice released a sealed indictment of Senator Menendez this morning. Here is the first paragraph of the allegations: From at least 2018 up to and including in or bout 2022, MENENDEZ and his wife, NADINE MENENDEZ, a/k/a “Nadine Arslanian,” the defendant, engaged in a corrupt relationship with three New Jersey associates and …
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Medicaid Redetermination Mulligan
A few weeks ago, we talked about the wildly varying and conflicting eligibility limits that a single family or household could have for Medicaid eligibility. We worked through an example for a family of 4 in North Carolina. Mom and Dad are both 40. Kid 1 just turned 6 and Kid 2 is 11 months …
Challenges of paying monthly?
In Health Affairs Forefront, Paul Shafer, Michal Horny, Stacie Dusetzina and I published a short blog post on the challenges of commercial plans requiring monthly deductible resets instead of annual resets. Paul, Michal and Stacie have been playing with these ideas for a couple of years and I had been in the peanut gallery heckling the authors …