Yesterday afternoon, I was having a beer and a long discussion on Zoom with my friend and most frequent co-author. We’re trying to figure out what our combined research agenda for the next couple of years looks like after we get through a couple of current and near future projects. We think we have some …
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Mississippi wants an Arkansas style Medicaid Expansion?
Reporter Richard Lake of WJTV reports that the Mississippi State Senate counter-offer on Medicaid Expansion is a “private option” styled like the current implementation that Arkansas uses for Medicaid Expansion: Arkansas basically does this already. It is more expensive for the state and federal government. It probably does not matter much, if at all …
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Guessing cost-sharing wrong matters a lot
Tomorrow afternoon, my co-author Dr. Alex Hoagland of the University of Toronto will be presenting our paper Medical Bill Shock and Imperfect Moral Hazard to the Electronic Health Economics Colloquium (EHEC) at 14:00 ET on Zoom. It is an open presentation. ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE: We want to know how does the provision of accurate billing information …
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Distribution of Medical Spending in the US Population
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality just released an update on my favorite health policy factoid — the distribution of spending in the US civilian non-institutionalized population over time using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). This is the overall distribution by selected percentiles: The first thing to remember is that we are seeing …
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Nudges to low deductible low cost plans in California
Earlier this week, JAMA Health Forum published a new study by Lovichikova et al on Covered California’s nudges to move people mid-year from bronze, gold and platinum plans to CSR 94 plans in the summer of 2021. As part of the the American Rescue Plan, two things happened mid-2021. First, subsidies increased dramatically so that …
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Nevada pauses proposed reinsurance 1332 waiver
Nevada had filed a combined public option(ish) and reinsurance Section 1332 waiver last December. The state just wrote to CMS to pause the application: The State of Nevada is writing to formally request that the U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pause its consideration of our pending 1332 …
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Still a BFD at 14
14 years ago, the ACA was signed into law. It was the down payment on a commitment to get everyone insured in the US. And it has cut the uninsurance rate in half with substantial gains after the passage of the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Acts. This BFD is on the ballot …