Balloon Juice - Section 1332 Reinsurance Waivers and Silverloading We talked earlier this week that the Republican reconciliation bill may contain a direct payment appropriation for Cost-Sharing Reduction (CSR) subsidies in the ACA.  This would end the practice of “S...

#Section1332 #Reinsurance #ACA waivers would become much more expensive for states in a no #Silverload scenario

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#Section1332 reinsurance is a common program that has substantial unintended enrollment consequences between 200-400% FPL and the cost of a new enrollment is projected to be highly variable.

We need to understand this better.

Incremental Cost of State Funds for New Enrollment in Section 1332 Waivers David M Anderson, PhD, Daniel Ludwinski, PhD; Incremental Cost of State Funds for New Enrollment in Section 1332 Waivers, Health Affairs Scholar, , qxaf050

🎈🎈🎈 New Research Letter on #Section1332 #ACA #Reinsurance

With @dludwinski.com in #HealthAffairsScholar, we examine the average cost in state funds for new enrollees due to Section 1332 waiver applications

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Study: Health insurance program hurt some income-stretched Georgians As Gov. Brian Kemp started work back in 2019, higher-income Georgians getting insurance on the federal Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace had a problem. As a person’s income climbed high...

Was able to get a quasi-Seussian quote in this story on #Section1332 #ACA #Reinsurance

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First Patient Begins Newly Approved Sickle Cell Gene Therapy A 12-year-old boy in the Washington, D.C., area faces months of procedures to remedy his disease. “I want to be cured,” he said.

This is what we should be optimizing reinsurance policies towards in #section1332 waivers not modestly complex pregnancies

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New article with @colemandrake.bsky.social and #EzraGolberstein at #HealthAffairs
We look at the #Georgia #Section1332 #Reinsurance waiver for the #ACA and find substantial enrollment drops for 250-400% FPL

www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
Thread to follow tomorrow
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