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After Exposure, Security Holes Sealed In Minnesota’s Health Exchange

By Elizabeth Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio December 19, 2013 KFF Health News Original

A security flaw has been fixed on MNsure, Minnesota’s health insurance marketplace — one that had left users vulnerable to data interception by hackers. The fix follows an MPR story last week and a meeting Monday between forensic analyst Mark Lanterman and the state’s chief information security officer, Chris Buse. At the meeting, Lanterman explained how he discovered the […]

Minnesota’s MNsure Exchange Weighs What To Do Next

By Elizabeth Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio January 24, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Officials with Minnesota’s troubled online insurance marketplace heard from the authors of a scathing independent report and began weighing the crucial question of what do do next. “Is it irreparably broke?” MNsure‘s chairman of the board Brian Beutner asked during the insurance marketplace’s board meeting on Thursday. Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, prepared the […]

Parsing The President’s 9 Million Enrollees

By Julie Appleby January 29, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Nine million. That’s the number President Barack Obama touted last night as having signed up for health insurance. That total is important to supporters as a sign that the law is working — and as an indication of the difficulties Republicans would face to rescind the law or roll back certain provisions. Critics have pointed out […]

More Shoppers, Including Young Ones, Showing Up At Health Exchanges

By Ankita Rao January 9, 2014 KFF Health News Original

The road to enrolling Americans in the online health exchanges has been fraught with glitches and a rich source of political fodder. But a new survey says there are signs of improvement. Seventeen percent of people potentially eligible for coverage visited the marketplaces when they opened in October, according to a survey  of 622 people conducted […]

Obamacare On Campus: Reaching The Young And Uninsured

By Carrie Feibel, KUHF March 10, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Young adults may be key to the success of Obamacare. Insurance companies need a mix of ages, and a mix of healthy and sick people to balance out the costs for everyone — and young people tend to be healthier. But persuading them to sign up for health insurance is no easy task. Many don’t know about […]

Breaking Up With Healthcare.gov

By Annie Feidt, Alaska Public Radio Network December 1, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Enrolling in healthcare.gov is not easy. In Alaska, just 53 people enrolled in the first month. Anchorage hair stylist Lara Imler is one of the few who got through. Now though, after she discovered problems with her application, Imler wants to cancel her enrollment. “I don’t even know how to feel about the whole thing […]

Consumer Data Errors, Other Bugs Reduced At Healthcare.gov, Administration Says

By Phil Galewitz December 2, 2013 KFF Health News Original

For the first time since its mangled Oct. 1 launch, users can now go to the federal government’s insurance enrollment website and get detailed information about the costs and benefits of health plans in their county without first enrolling. Before this week, the “window shopping” feature on healthcare.gov showed only average monthly premium prices until […]