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Outside of open enrollment, a special enrollment period allows you to enroll in an ACA-compliant plan (on or off-exchange) if you experience a qualifying life event.

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Mary Lou Retton’s health scare story included some important lessons for consumers, many of whom may assume that the celebrity’s health scare is a sign of barriers to affordable health coverage.
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The Scoop: July 15, 2020 Edition photo

The Scoop: July 15, 2020 Edition

July 15, 2020 – In this edition: COVID-19 SEPs for Maryland, New York end today; Georgia delays reinsurance program until 2022, submits modified proposal…

Who’s bearing the brunt of rate increases? photo

Who’s bearing the brunt of rate increases?

October 14, 2016 – While headlines about huge rate increases and carrier exits have been everywhere over the last few months, they only apply to the 7 percent…

Burying great Obamacare headlines photo

Burying great Obamacare headlines

September 14, 2016 – Too bad the news that 700,000 people got health insurance happened to hit on a day where a more important economic story broke: "Wrigley…

How close can we get to zero percent uninsured? photo

How close can we get to zero percent uninsured?

February 7, 2016 – Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both want to bring the nation closer to 100 percent health coverage? Here are some proposals for…

Debunking the Cruz health coverage ‘crisis’ photo

Debunking the Cruz health coverage ‘crisis’

January 22, 2016 – No, Sen. Cruz, 50 percent rate hikes are most certainly not happening "all over the…

Prediction: QHP enrollment will swell by 25 percent photo

Prediction: QHP enrollment will swell by 25 percent

October 15, 2015 – Before I go any further, let me say this flat out: No. Actual exchange enrollments in 2016 are not going to reach the CBO's 21 million…

The life-or-death impact of King v. Burwell photo

The life-or-death impact of King v. Burwell

June 3, 2015 – "There are people who are going to survive because they have gotten insurance through Obamacare – there are people who will not die…

Open enrollment’s ‘missing persons’ photo

Open enrollment’s ‘missing persons’

January 20, 2015 – Last spring I was shouting from the rooftops about off-exchange QHP enrollments at a time when most reporters (and especially ACA…

The ‘good old days’ before Obamacare photo

The ‘good old days’ before Obamacare

October 25, 2014 – We Americans have short-term memory when it comes to health care. Either that or far too many of us have bought – hook, line and sinker…

Fixing Obamacare’s broken window photo

Fixing Obamacare’s broken window

April 17, 2014 – Spreading out open enrollment would allow carriers and exchanges to maintain level staffing throughout the year, and would result in better…

Flushing away $10,000 to ‘just say No’ photo

Flushing away $10,000 to ‘just say No’

March 27, 2014 – "The vast majority of our clients are thrilled to find out they qualify for subsidies. But to some people, the premium tax credits feel…

Cruel irony: millions too poor for Medicaid photo

Cruel irony: millions too poor for Medicaid

March 20, 2014 – In states that have not expanded Medicaid, the people who most desperately need help paying for health insurance – those with the lowest…