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Cynthia Cox

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Jan 31

1/ Biden will end the #PublicHealthEmergency (PHE) on May 11.
If you have private health insurance coverage, here's what will (and will not) change for you with the end of the PHE

2/ For people with private insurance, the big change with the end of the Public Health Emergency on May 11th will likely be higher costs for COVID tests.
Those free COVID tests (and associated Dr. visits) your insurance offers now may end in a few months kff.org/coronavirus-co…

3/ For people with private insurance, the end of the Public Health Emergency does NOT affect your coverage for COVID vax/boosters
Rather, a change will come whenever the federal vax supply runs out (this is TBD). Then, privately insured folks may need an in-network provider

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Cynthia Cox

@cynthiaccox

Apr 22, 2022

Covid vaccines are safe and highly effective. Vaccines have prevented countless deaths, and unvaccinated people represent most covid deaths.

Even so, vaccinated people represent a growing share of covid deaths. Why is this?

A quick thread: 1/🧵
healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid19-…

2/🧵 First, what is not causing a growing share of covid deaths among vaxxed people?
While most people dying of covid are age 50+ these aren't all "incidental" deaths that would've happened anyway
Cause of death is investigated & many more people died than expected (excess death)

3/🧵 One reason we're seeing vaccinated people represent a larger share of covid deaths?

Vaccinated people also represent a larger share of the population.

If 100% of people were vaccinated, 100% of deaths would be among vaccinated people.

But that's only part of the story...

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Cynthia Cox

@cynthiaccox

Apr 21, 2022

@KrutikaAmin

🧵As the U.S. approaches 1,000,000 covid deaths, we estimate 234,000 of those lives could have been saved by vaccines. That's 6 in 10 covid deaths since vaccines were widely available.
healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid19-… @KrutikaAmin @jenkatesdc @joshmich @JaredOrtaliza @KFF @PetersonCHealth

@KrutikaAmin

@KrutikaAmin @jenkatesdc @joshmich @JaredOrtaliza @KFF @PetersonCHealth 2/🧵 Our analysis focuses on deaths that could have been prevented by the primary vaccines. Even more deaths -- among both the unvaccinated and vaccinated -- likely would have been prevented by greater uptake of booster shots.

@KrutikaAmin

@KrutikaAmin @jenkatesdc @joshmich @JaredOrtaliza @KFF @PetersonCHealth 3/🧵 Not all covid deaths would have been prevented by vaccines.

In January and February 2022, covid was a leading cause of death.

And about 4 in 10 people who died were considered fully vaccinated.

This underscores the importance of boosters as well as masks and ventilation.

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Cynthia Cox

@cynthiaccox

Apr 5, 2022

We estimate that 5.1 million people fall into the family glitch.

Most are children, and among adults, women are more likely to fall into the #familyglitch kff.org/health-reform/…

2/ People with affordable employer coverage can't get ACA subsidies.
Under current law, "affordable" is defined just based on the employee's premium. So an employee might have "affordable" coverage, even if it'd be unaffordable to their add spouse/kids to the plan (the "glitch").

3/ The Biden Admin is proposing to change the interpretation of this ACA provision, saying that family members in this circumstance do NOT have access to affordable coverage, and they should be eligible for subsidies on the ACA marketplace.
Proposal here: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-07158.pdf

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Cynthia Cox

@cynthiaccox

Jan 27, 2022

The Washington Post reports the Biden Admin will be announcing record high enrollment in ACA Marketplaces -- 14.5 million -- and that's not even final yet.
Here's what that would look like relative to previous enrollment cycles:

Why is ACA Marketplace enrollment at a record high?
Probably a combination of
- Increased subsidies from COVID relief passed 2021
- Increased marketing & outreach from Biden Admin
- Long enrollment period that lasted most of last year
- Pandemic motivated people to keep coverage?

Since passage of the ACA, the uninsured rate has dropped. It even remained lower in 2020 as millions of people lost jobs & coverage. That's in large part thanks to the ACA's Medicaid expansion & Marketplaces.

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Cynthia Cox

@cynthiaccox

Dec 29, 2021

@KFF

If you'll indulge me, I'd like to do an end-of-year 🧵highlighting the incredible work by colleagues @KFF.
Here's a sample of the health policy & COVID analyses this year by @KrutikaAmin @matthew_t_rae @NirmitaPanchal @nishakurani @emmawage @gio_j_ramirez & @JaredOrtaliza (1/10)

@JaredOrtaliza

2/ Looking at OECD data, @JaredOrtaliza @gio_j_ramirez @VenkSathees and @KrutikaAmin found the pandemic set back life expectancy far more in the U.S. than in similarly large/wealthy nations.
Life expectancy of Hispanic and Black Americans was set back most
healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collecti…

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3/ Sadly @KrutikaAmin found that not only did the U.S. experience some of the worst excess death rates overall in 2020, we also saw many more young people die than did peer countries. Again, this is in part due to racial disparities, as more POC died young
healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19…

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