Yesterday was the first day in forever that I didn't have a single update to post.
Today, if you'll forgive a bit of meta navel gazing:
--Here's what 15 minutes of internet fame looks like.
In other news...
--Maryland: 86.3K QHPs, 67.2K Medicaid thru Jan. 1st
--Rhode Island: Over 23.6K QHPs to date
--Massachusetts: 81.4K QHPs, over 139K Medicaid to date
--HC.gov's next "weekly snapshot" should total around 6.59M (as of 01/02/15)
--Reminder: The SCOTUS ruling on King could devastate 5-6M people's lives...in 2 ways
We've now entered the "quiet zone" of enrollments; all of the January deadlines are past, the February deadlines don't kick in for 2 weeks, and most of the renewals/auto-renewals have gone through by this point.
The "big ticket items" to look for enrollment-wise for another week or so are:
--Renewal/Autorenewal data from California & New York finally being released (should total somewhere around 1.3 million in all)
--Final "deadline spike" numbers for Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington State
--How big of an issue will double-counting be for the several million renewals/re-enrollments (both active and automatic)? That is, will half a million of the official QHP tally turn out to be 2014 accounts being double counted for 2015? Will people be double-billed, or receive 2 sets of insurance cards?
--Similarly, will there be a problem with people who are supposed to be covered not being recognized by the system (either the exchanges, the insurance companies or their healthcare provider) at all?
This last issue isn't directly related to my "bean counting" aspect of the ACA but is obviously pretty important.