- Six traits make a person cool: extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.
- OBBBA Medicaid cuts will hit some states harder than others: California and New York would each face losses exceeding $100 billion.
- Cost of an Obamacare exchange bronze plan: Premium pus deductible = $11,758. And that’s every year.
Category: Medicare
Consumers are Dropping Obamacare Due to the Poor Value
The Wall Street Journal reports Centene, a purveyor of Medicaid and Obamacare plans, is facing an earnings crunch as healthy Americans are dropping coverage because it is such a bad value.
KFF: Federal Proposals Threaten Key Source of State Medicaid Funding
The Kaiser Family Foundation had this to say:
Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help fund their Medicaid programs could strip them of tens of billions of dollars. The move could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people, warn analysts, patient advocates, and Democratic political leaders.
Thursday Links
- More than 60 major health insurance companies have committed to six actions to streamline the use of prior authorization.
- In “No Surprise Act” arbitrations, providers win 72–85 percent of the time.
- Schaeffer Center Study: The Inflation Reduction Act IRA) is poised to raise drug costs for most Medicare beneficiaries.
- “There are an estimated 25,000 near-Earth asteroids at least 460 feet wide — large enough to destroy a city — and only 44 percent of them have been found.” (NYT)
- One in four abortions in the U.S. were provided using telehealth at the end of 2024.
- Everything you wanted to know about garlic.