Navigators, Agents: Smooth OE5 Launch, Angst For Unsubsidized Enrollees

Early anecdotal reports on the fifth open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act's individual market, from people on the ground, indicate a significantly high number of new enrollments despite consumer uncertainty around the law, but CMS has yet to release hard numbers. A CMS official said the agency plans to release enrollment snapshot data "regularly throughout open enrollment as we have done in the past," but did not send Inside Health Policy requested data from the first days of...