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My health plan is where?
My last post focused on alleged large-scale broker fraud in the ACA marketplace — chiefly via agents and brokers switching enrollees’ health plans without their authorization (or usually even knowledge) after obtaining minimal personal information (name...

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How did this get in my pocket?
Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News reported last week that health insurance brokers are switching a number of ACA marketplace enrollees in HealthCare.gov states from one plan to another “without their express permission” and often without their knowledge...

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What's left of the upper coverage gap?
For some years, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) has published estimates of people in the “coverage gap” in states that have refused to enact the ACA Medicaid expansion — that is, uninsured people who would be eligible for Medicaid if the state enacted...

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The enrollment doctor is in
Last week I caught up with Shelli Quenga of the South Carolina-based nonprofit Palmetto Project, who has been an ACA enrollment assistor and enrollment project director since the ACA marketplace’s first Open Enrollment Period (OEP) in fall 2013....