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I normally do full cross-posts of full entries here at dKos, but things have been so busy lately that I'll probably be doing shorter "roundups" like this more often.
Four updates today, three of which are from unlikely places:
South Dakota:
A 42% increase from South Dakota since 12/23 is pretty good by itself. However, this number only covers 2 of the 3 insurance companies participating in the exchange. I have no idea what sort of market share the 3rd company has in SD, so I can't speculate as to how many more enrollments they have to add to the total.
I've also subtracted a the corresponding 1,000 difference from the "unspecified" Federal pool at the bottom of the spreadsheet to compensate.
North Dakota:
I've also updated SD's sister state to the North. ND was at just 265 private enrollments as of 11/30, so this represents a four-fold increase as of January 7. I've subtracted 800 from the "unspecified" pool at the bottom of the spreadsheet to compensate.
Meanwhile, their Medicaid expansion has gone from 1,001 up to somewhere between 20K - 32K (?). I'm splitting the difference at 26K for the moment.
Idaho/Payments:
As a follow-up to Friday's news that Idaho has hit around 20,000 private enrollments comes this story about the status of those enrollments from the actual insurance companies' perspective. While the major thrust of the article is the unusually long payment deadline extensions that have become necessary due to the technical and paperwork confusion caused by the Federal HC.gov exchange, as contributor Witgren notes, there's two important points which are quite telling.
MinnesotaCare/CMS State-Level Projections:
This is a lengthy post which mostly details the unique program that Minnesota has for their own healthcare program, MinnesotaCare, a combination federal/state/privately-funded system, and the difficulty of trying to fit it into a single category on the spreadsheet (I should note that I'm not the one who details it, but the person who did wishes to remain anonymous).
However, there's another point here which makes the above somewhat moot: The state-by-state projections given in the CMS report are, for lack of a better word, basically nothing more than educated guesses for the most part.
Finally, as I noted last night, over 90% of over 700 respondents were perfectly fine with my adding banner ads to the site, so I've done so. The twist is that I'm giving anyone who makes a donation (of any amount) a user account that kills off the banner ads.