New updates from NY, CT, MA & MN


New York:


The enrollment number is the same 2,800 that I had it at last week, but I've confirmed that in the Massachusetts exchange, policy info isn't even sent to the insurers until the process has been completed, including payment. Thus, the "But how many have PAID??" talking point can be answered as "all of them" in MA, at least.

The latest MN tally is 53,000 policies—but the story specifies that these represent 125,000 actual people (Minnesota is the only state which seems to be breaking out households from actual individuals outside of the official monthly HHS reports). Based on the breakdown of the policy figures (appx. 40% private, 60% Medicaid or other state-run programs), this amounts to roughly 50,000 private enrollments & 75,000 Medicaid/etc.

The story also notes 3,900 of the enrollees still need to make payments; I’m not sure if these are included in the above numbers, but am assuming they are to err on the side of caution, so they've been separated out on the spreadsheet.

Note that this makes 4 states which are now reporting specific “Paid vs. Unpaid” ratios: 49% in Washington State, 49% in Nevada, 100% in Massachusetts and about 92% in Minnesota to date.

Finally, on the spreadsheet you'll note that two other states--Iowa and Nebraska, both of which run on the federal exchange--have significant updates. I'll explain what's going on with those in tomorrow's update; for now, I'm just too damned tired to get to it.

LATE BREAKER: Add Kentucky to today's list of updates. (h/t to Lompemann)

Kentucky had about 640,000 uninsured people when enrollment began Oct. 1. So far, 84,480 people have enrolled in government-funded Medicaid and 31,672 have enrolled in private insurance, a total of 116,152.