Trump's attacks on the ACA reduced signups during the crucial final weeks of open enrollment for 2018 insurance policies. New data shows how steep the reduction was. More from hiltzikm:
The paper by Anderson and Paul Shafer of UNC, which is published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, focuses on the final two weeks of open enrollment for 2017. They found that enrollment fell by a stunning 30% in that period compared to the same period a year earlier under President Obama, when outreach, advertising and hands-on enrollment assistance was robust. That’s enough to account for at least a percentage point or two in increased premiums.
State by state drop-offs in ACA enrollment after Trump's inauguration reached more than 80% in some states. “Folks who think it is likely that they will be in the bottom 50% of the US healthcare spending distribution tend to enroll late,” Anderson blogged. “They are the ones who need strong encouragement to go onto the Exchanges and buy.”
Most people incur modest medical spending during any given year, but they're the enrollees most needed by the health insurance pool.
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