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Wellpoint and other insurers face a new set of decisions as a result of the Obama administration's proposed "fix," which would allow them to renew individual plans that don't include all the benefits required by the overhaul.
More important than age, however, will be how healthy or unhealthy the enrollees are. Those who are sick are more motivated to sign up early, researchers said.
Many state regulators, insurers have yet to decide on whether to OK renewals of canceled policies.
New insurance marketplaces around the country are weighing whether to offer voter registration to people signing up for health insurance. The issue could cause political and legal fights across the nation.
Some worry the lower rates will discourage physicians from participating, potentially making it more difficult for enrollees to get care.
The Wisconsin governor, who may have presidential ambitions, wants to take people off BadgerCare and have them shop for subsidized coverage on healthcare.gov.
As many as 400,000 Pennsylvanians, most of them low-wage workers, will go without coverage next year because Pennsylvania officials have not opted to take federal money available under the health law to expand Medicaid.
The Affordable Care Act offers state grants to reward doctors for quality health care.
Insurers battle to increase profits while adapting to health law's new constraints.
The state mistakenly told consumers in the "bridge to reform" program that they may have to switch doctors as they transition to Medicaid.
The insurance commissioner and the health insurance industry lobby disagree over President Obama's plan.
Under the president's plan, insurers will be permitted to extend this year's policies into next year, but it's far from clear that insurers will want to follow through. Some state regulators may not even let them.
In Oregon, the online health marketplace isn't working for people looking to buy individual policies. But the state has been rapidly expanding Medicaid anyway. In Texas, insurance helpers may face state regulations that would make it even harder to assist people seeking coverage.
The Kaiser Health News story and data on Medicare's quality payment programs are based on data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) containing the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing and Readmissions Reduction Program adjustment factors for individual hospitals.
This chart shows the payment adjustments for each hospital and how they compared to the bonuses and penalties from last year.
Medicare gives hospitals bonuses and penalties based on how well they performed on 24 quality measures. This chart shows the average effect by state on hospitals' Medicare payments during the second year of the program.
The hospitals were rated on two-dozen measures, including surveys of patient satisfaction and death rates.
Numbers released by the government Wednesday deepened doubts about the law's immediate viability, and proposed fixes have shortcomings.
If you get your insurance from your employer, there's a very good chance that you are in a "grandfathered plan," and that means some of the provisions of the health law do not apply to you - yet.
Some say Colorado Medicaid has hampered the state's private insurance enrollment efforts.
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