David Anderson

@bjdickmayhew
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I am a doctoral candidate in the Duke University Department of Population Health Sciences. I am working towards my my doctorate in Health Services Research with a policy focus. I am fundamentally fascinated by insurance markets, consumer choice and the navigation of complex choice environments. I'm currently RA-ing at the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy.

I used to be Richard Mayhew, a mid-level bureaucrat at UPMC Health Plan.

Nice to have successfully navigated a complex and sometimes opaque two way matching system
dissertating is my weekend
trying to figure out synthetic control in STATA tonight
mostly at Blue Sky
not much is happening as I data clean all week for my dissertation.

Triangle Blog Blog has its endorsements up for Carrboro Town Elections

Foushee, Posada, Fray, and Merrill

https://triangleblogblog.com/2023/10/11/triangle-blog-blog-endorsements-carrboro-2023-foushee-posada-fray-and-merrill/

Triangle Blog Blog endorsements: Carrboro 2023 - Foushee, Posada, Fray, and Merrill - Triangle Blog Blog

A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

Triangle Blog Blog
what should I read on synthetic controls?
Spending more time at Blue Sky than here right now... not sure why

Short piece #ACCEPTED

That is a nice win for the week

Now back to fleshing out a dissertation concept

FLORIDA: Preliminary avg. unsubsidized 2024 #ACA rate changes: +5.1% (unweighted):
https://acasignups.net/23/08/07/florida-preliminary-avg-unsubsidized-2024-aca-rate-changes-51-unweighted
Florida: Preliminary avg. unsubsidized 2024 #ACA rate changes: +5.1% (unweighted)

Florida state law gives private corporations wide berth as to what sort of information, which is easily available in some other states, they get to hide from the public under the guise of it being a "trade secret." In the case of health insurance premium rate filing data, that even extends to basic information like "how many customers they have." If you think I'm being sarcastic, this is literally a screenshot of what you get if you attempt to use the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation's filing search: In any event, this means that I can only run the numbers on unweighted average rate change requests in Florida for the moment, since even the federal Rate Review website only lists the average rate changes themselves, while the enrollment data is redacted for nearly every carrier in both the individual and small group markets. The most noteworthy items I can find for the moment are that Coventry Health Plan appears to be dropping out of the FL individual market, while Humana and National Health Insurance Co. are pulling out of the small group market.

ACA Signups