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 …
Anderson On Health Insurance
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 …
Cost of adding insurance (marginal vs inframarginal)
How much does it cost to add one more person to an insurance pool? That is a damn good policy analysis question that implicitly partially motivates my dissertation plus several other papers I have under review or in development. TLDR: “WELL IT DEPENDS!!!!” The biggest thing that it depends on is how much of the …
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Beat the bugs
The BBC reported some massive global health news yesterday: A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO)…. the key difference is the ability to manufacture the University of Oxford vaccine – called R21 – at scale. The world’s largest vaccine …
SBMs, 1332s and Exchange fees
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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