HIGHLIGHT Get Trained, Get Excited Your organizations, CMS, and national health care enrollment partners are gearing up for November 1 (the first day of open enrollment) with webinars, trainings, and practical tips on doing your jobs. Find a ton of resources in the bottom section of this email to get trained up with a few lessons targeted just for your… Read more →
HIGHLIGHT Outreach, Relationships, Resources Now is the time for so much! Assisters should plan to attend the upcoming Enroll Nebraska Webinar: Best Practices for a Successful OE5 Tuesday, Sept. 12 at noon to learn how to make the most of our open enrollment. Culled from around the country and our national partners, we’ll take a look at what can make… Read more →
HIGHLIGHT Senate Votes to Begin Debating Bill to Replace the Affordable Care Act Here is the path that the Senate could take from here. UPCOMING EVENTS If you know about health care-related and/or outreach and enrollment events happening in your area, visit our events page and enter your event into our Submit An Event form. ENROLL NEBRASKA EVENTS Enroll NE… Read more →
This is a guest post from Enroll Nebraska intern Elsa Knight. Chances are you know someone who is uninsured, and the discussion of how to help the uninsured continues. However, some good news arrived in the form of some recent statistics that show the uninsured rate has decreased rapidly in the U.S. This will let health care assisters focus… Read more →
This is a guest post from Enroll Nebraska intern Nathan Klein. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about 12.7 million Americans enrolled in private health insurance through the federal and state marketplaces during the 2016 health care enrollment period. Beginning in mid November and ending on January 31st of this year, the state of Nebraska enrolled a… Read more →
Today, community and health care organizations across Nebraska announced the kickoff of a health coverage enrollment campaign to bring a strong finish to an open enrollment period that already has been a resounding success. Enroll Nebraska’s “2016 in 2016” is an effort by a statewide network of health coverage navigators and enrollment assisters to enroll over 2,000 Nebraskans in health… Read more →
This is a guest post by Enroll Nebraska intern Sally Henry. As we pass the halfway point of open enrollment, there is an unprecedented amount of usage of the healthcare.gov website and call center. According to an article from USA Today approximately 1 million people have left their contact information to hold their place in line. Wait times at the… Read more →
This post is from Enroll Nebraska intern Sally Henry. As many of us know, either by word of mouth or firsthand experience, there are financial penalties for remaining uninsured if you are eligible to gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Two recent articles have reported that the penalty for 2016 is going up more than you may have… Read more →
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had an enormously positive impact on reducing the number of uninsured Americans. Nearly 9 million people got health coverage in the first year of the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplace. This is the biggest drop in uninsurance in the U.S. since before 2008, and some experts even say that we haven’t seen this big of… Read more →
Note: This is a guest post from Enroll Nebraska intern Sally Henry. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been the topic of heated debate within Congress since it was first introduced and passed in 2010, but after the Supreme Court delivered the law a major victory in June, lawmakers are starting to work together acknowledging the reality that the ACA… Read more →
