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ACA Signups: Increasing My Projection to 12.5 Million
I've bumped up my 2/15/15 projection by half a million, to 12.5M QHPs.
In addition, I've also tweaked my Dec. 15th and Jan. 15th projections, from 7M / 7M to 7.4M and 9M respectively.
I thought that this would be the biggest news of the day, but New York finally came out with their first official update (yay!)...as well as the first deadline extension of the year, out to December 20th (yay! or boo!, depending on your POV...)
In any event, a lot more data dropped today, so let's get to it...
--REVISED QHP PROJECTIONS: 7.4M by 12/23; 9.0M by 1/15; 12.5M by 2/15/15
--Connecticut: At least 8,000 QHPs, 21K Medicaid UPDATE: New enrollees only
--Thursday Short Cuts
--Friday Short Cuts
--Minnesota: The Surge is definitely ON: Enrollment rate 2.5x higher in 4th week
--New York: Hallelujah!! An update at last: 154K total (QHPs + Medicaid) UPDATED w/breakdown
--Vermont: Nearly 26K QHPs to date, 84% renewal
--Massachusetts: Estimated 44K QHPs, 72K Medicaid
--Maryland: 45K QHPs, 35.3K Medicaid in 27 days
--New Mexico & Texas: Partial QHP data from 2 insurers
Even Romneyland is celebrating!
ACA Signups: Increasing My Projection to 12.5 Million
I've bumped up my 2/15/15 projection by half a million, to 12.5M QHPs.
In addition, I've also tweaked my Dec. 15th and Jan. 15th projections, from 7M / 7M to 7.4M and 9M respectively.
I thought that this would be the biggest news of the day, but New York finally came out with their first official update (yay!)...as well as the first deadline extension of the year, out to December 20th (yay! or boo!, depending on your POV...)
In any event, a lot more data dropped today, so let's get to it...
--REVISED QHP PROJECTIONS: 7.4M by 12/23; 9.0M by 1/15; 12.5M by 2/15/15
--Connecticut: At least 8,000 QHPs, 21K Medicaid UPDATE: New enrollees only
--Thursday Short Cuts
--Friday Short Cuts
--Minnesota: The Surge is definitely ON: Enrollment rate 2.5x higher in 4th week
--New York: Hallelujah!! An update at last: 154K total (QHPs + Medicaid) UPDATED w/breakdown
--Vermont: Nearly 26K QHPs to date, 84% renewal
--Massachusetts: Estimated 44K QHPs, 72K Medicaid
--Maryland: 45K QHPs, 35.3K Medicaid in 27 days
--New Mexico & Texas: Partial QHP data from 2 insurers
Even Romneyland is celebrating!
Nobody asked me or the 20+ million who are now benefiting from what you Canadians and elite employees from Fortune 500 companies have enjoyed all these years.
I went to a doctor's office just this week and did not have to wait on any line. This is precisely what I want and am getting it thanks to ACA.
20 million others are saying the same thing.
Don't think I'll be needing a knee replacement as the ligament damage to it from a karate wound is about 50% healed. Went to a physical therapist and she told me it won't get any better and likely won't get any worse. 
How long would you have to wait if you needed a new knee?Don't think I'll be needing a knee replacement as the ligament damage to it from a karate wound is about 50% healed. Went to a physical therapist and she told me it won't get any better and likely won't get any worse.
It is said that Minnesota has a good record on this because the state is one that has largely pioneered sports medicine. Interestingly, reports are that such surgery is discouraged because it is largely needless. As for the time frame for those who need it, that I cannot say. I checked with Google but couldn't find anything except for advertisements from surgeons who are only too eager for your money.
Oh Vermont! Oh what happened!
Vermont’s Giving Up On Single-Payer Health Care Over Ballooning Costs | The Daily Caller
Bring in the crickets!
tick...tick...tick...
ObamaCare fines loom for uninsured | TheHill
But I thought it was free!
Vermont’s Giving Up On Single-Payer Health Care Over Ballooning Costs | The Daily Caller
Bring in the crickets!
tick...tick...tick...
ObamaCare fines loom for uninsured | TheHill
But I thought it was free!
Irrefutable source.in further praise of socialized medicine:
saving lives and money every day .....
A Gopher meme from "Occupy Democrats".
Geez.
If it wasn't for Obamacare you would most likely be dead.
Obamacare has saved your life and you love it.
New England Journal of Medicine finds less racial disparity in hospital care
Demographics of the the 4 million (in November 2014) not covered by ACA. As of November, some four million poor adults were included in the national "coverage gap," a consequence of state decisions not to expand Medicaid. As the chart shows, Latinos and blacks make up a highly disproportionate share of these uninsured Americans.
These uninsured earn too much money to meet current Medicaid eligibility requirements but below the lower limit for Marketplace premium tax credits. If all the states had expanded their Medicaid programs, these four million would be newly eligible for coverage.
On a more positive note, the coverage gap has declined markedly in the past year. In three states alone—Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire—600,000 previously ineligible people have become insured since September 2013 because of Medicaid expansion. Again, this is a major benefit to all who meet the eligibility requirements, but blacks and Latinos especially gain because they are more likely to fall into the income eligibility parameters of the program.
In some other good news, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine indicates significant improvements are taking place in hospital care of Latinos and blacks, at least when it comes to heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
Most hospitals report their performance caring for patients suffering from these ailments, but they don't report the outcome based on race or ethnicity, making it difficult to determine whether there have been improvements in the quality and equity of care based on those characteristics. A team of researchers led by Dr. Amal N. Trivedi sought to find out.
They adjusted for 17 quality measures and found that "racial disparities were reduced in every category between 2005 and 2010. Importantly, they found hospitals were providing care more equally within hospitals, as well as between hospitals—meaning hospitals that serve higher rates of minority patients also saw improvements, the study authors wrote." Specifically, performance rates in the 17 categories improved by 3.4 to 57.6 percentage points in that five-year period for white, black, and Latino adults:
“Reviewing more than 12 million hospitalizations between 2005 and 2010, researchers set out to find whether hospital quality was improving—and whether minority groups were still being left behind. By 2010, angioplasty rates for all heart attack victims rose dramatically as the disparity gap also narrowed, according to the study. That year, 91.7 percent of white patients received the procedure within 90 minutes, compared to 86.3 percent of blacks and 89.7 of Hispanic patients—so the treatment gap between whites and blacks was cut by more than half in those five years.”
The closing of the gap is encouraging. It would be instructive to learn whether this improvement in care and equity when dealing with heart problems and pneumonia apply to other areas of care.
more lives saved every day thanks to ACA
Demographics of the the 4 million (in November 2014) not covered by ACA. As of November, some four million poor adults were included in the national "coverage gap," a consequence of state decisions not to expand Medicaid. As the chart shows, Latinos and blacks make up a highly disproportionate share of these uninsured Americans.
These uninsured earn too much money to meet current Medicaid eligibility requirements but below the lower limit for Marketplace premium tax credits. If all the states had expanded their Medicaid programs, these four million would be newly eligible for coverage.
On a more positive note, the coverage gap has declined markedly in the past year. In three states alone—Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire—600,000 previously ineligible people have become insured since September 2013 because of Medicaid expansion. Again, this is a major benefit to all who meet the eligibility requirements, but blacks and Latinos especially gain because they are more likely to fall into the income eligibility parameters of the program.
In some other good news, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine indicates significant improvements are taking place in hospital care of Latinos and blacks, at least when it comes to heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
Most hospitals report their performance caring for patients suffering from these ailments, but they don't report the outcome based on race or ethnicity, making it difficult to determine whether there have been improvements in the quality and equity of care based on those characteristics. A team of researchers led by Dr. Amal N. Trivedi sought to find out.
They adjusted for 17 quality measures and found that "racial disparities were reduced in every category between 2005 and 2010. Importantly, they found hospitals were providing care more equally within hospitals, as well as between hospitals—meaning hospitals that serve higher rates of minority patients also saw improvements, the study authors wrote." Specifically, performance rates in the 17 categories improved by 3.4 to 57.6 percentage points in that five-year period for white, black, and Latino adults:
“Reviewing more than 12 million hospitalizations between 2005 and 2010, researchers set out to find whether hospital quality was improving—and whether minority groups were still being left behind. By 2010, angioplasty rates for all heart attack victims rose dramatically as the disparity gap also narrowed, according to the study. That year, 91.7 percent of white patients received the procedure within 90 minutes, compared to 86.3 percent of blacks and 89.7 of Hispanic patients—so the treatment gap between whites and blacks was cut by more than half in those five years.”
The closing of the gap is encouraging. It would be instructive to learn whether this improvement in care and equity when dealing with heart problems and pneumonia apply to other areas of care.
more lives saved every day thanks to ACA
What is medicaid, I don't speak American, be technicle please.A schematic would hwelp.
I understand if you don't have any money your sh it out of luck.
What is medicaid, I don't speak American, be technicle please.A schematic would hwelp.
I understand if you don't have any money your sh it out of luck.
Medicaid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Republican governors can expand it easily so that millions more can be covered. But arrogant types like Rick Perry in Texa,s,s refuse to do so so that the rich get richer and the poor get screwed.