Seventeen states have enacted rules for health insurance marketplace navigators that could hinder their ability to provide consumer assistance. In a blog series published by the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR experts Justin Giovannelli, Kevin Lucia and Sarah Dash take a closer look at these laws and their impact on outreach and enrollment.
The early problems with the ACA’s health insurance marketplaces are frustrating. But if history is any guide, they will be temporary – and we can learn from them. Gene Lewit, a CHIP expert who lived through that law’s roll out in the 1990s, blogs about his new report, which finds that enrollment in new major health insurance expansions will be slow at first and expose problems that even the most careful planning might not have anticipated.
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means held an oversight hearing during which they questioned CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner on the technical issues Healthcare.gov has faced since its launch. But the hearing went well beyond Website problems. Elissa Dines tuned in and offers this report.
The U.S. House of Representatives began the first in what is likely to be a series of oversight hearings into the botched launch of the ACA’s health insurance marketplaces, with an aggressive drilling of four of the top IT contractors. Elissa Dines heard it all, and offers this overview.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the technical problems with the new websites for the health insurance marketplaces. While these problems are real, they are likely to be resolved soon. And, as documented in a recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, they pale in comparison to the barriers posed by states’ failure to expand their Medicaid programs. Cathy Hope got the report bright and early this morning and has this report.
The latest Health Affairs podcast discusses the significance of the early enrollment experience, featuring CHIR’s Sarah Dash, the American Enterprise Institute’s Joe Antos, and Manatt Health Solution’s Joel Ario. Elissa Dines tuned in and offers highlights.
The criticisms of the launch of the ACA’s marketplaces continue to roll in, with some charging that enrollment is anemic. But what enrollment expectations are reasonable, and within what time frame? Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Jack Hoadley looks at the enrollment experience in Medicare Part D for some historical perspective.
Indiana, a state with a federally facilitated health insurance marketplace, is also home to health care giants Wellpoint, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company. In a column she wrote for the October 7 edition of the Indianapolis Business Journal, CHIR faculty member Sally McCarty, a former Indiana insurance commissioner, makes a case for allowing Indiana residents to enroll in the federal marketplace without obstruction.
The new health insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act had a bumpy launch this week, overwhelmed with traffic, and with many interested shoppers facing technical glitches comparing plans and enrolling in coverage. But this wasn’t the first time an administration faced challenges rolling out a key domestic policy priority. Jack Hoadley of Georgetown University’s Health Policy reminds us in this blog that Medicare Part D’s web-based plan comparison tool faced similar technical problems.
PBS’ News Hour took a look at the early experience of the health insurance marketplaces, featuring CHIR’s Sabrina Corlette and the American Enterprise Institute’s Joe Antos. Elissa Dines tuned in and offers highlights.
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