Posted on 02/19/2015 3:48:10 PM PST by Libloather
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Consumers who get married, divorced, or have children between now and the next enrollment period will find making changes “a convoluted, multi-step process.” After hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the initial rollout and tens of millions spent to fix the system afterward, HHS and insurance companies will still rely on “clunky workarounds and manual spreadsheets,” Politico reported this week.
And that 11.4 million enrollment figure? That’s largely overstated too, Avik Roy writes at Forbes. First, it’s cumulative; it represents the total number of those who completed applications and those previously enrolled. This year’s additions are also signups, not full enrollment, which commences when consumers pay the first monthly premium. Obamacare has an 84 percent retention rate for sign-ups to enrollment, similar to what insurers saw when enrolling customers on individual plans prior to passage of the ACA. That would lower the enrollment figure to 9.5 million or slightly under 3 million more enrollees in the system at the beginning of open enrollment.
Also, that number does not mean that these Americans were all uninsured. Last year’s sign-up figure of 8 million – which decreased through the year – only included 3.8 million of previously uninsured Americans, according to research done by the Kaiser Foundation. Applying the same parameters and assumptions about retention, the total number of those gaining private insurance through Obamacare over the last two years only comes to 5.4 million, Roy concludes.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Democrats are touting the latest ObamaCare enrollment numbers as proof that the law is working.
The administration announced on Tuesday that 11.4 million people had signed up ahead of Sunday's deadline, a figure that puts the administration on track to beat its goal of 9.1 million enrollees. Republicans have been largely silent on the numbers.
Democrats are looking to show that the law is ingrained as an important part of people's lives ahead of Supreme Court arguments next month in King v. Burwell, a case that could gut the law by taking away subsidies that help people buy insurance.
Congressional Democrats tweeted the hashtag #11MillionAndCounting to emphasize that the law continues to expand.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) wrote:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/233152-dems-gloat-over-obamacare-numbers
What the hell is going on in this country? The morons and maggots are lining up in droves for a chance to kiss the Muzzie’s Kenyan @$$ before he leaves the White Hut and heads off into the sunset to Hawaii. This is totally unreal. It’s like almost everyone has never kissed a black guy’s @$$ before.
Obamacare is the classic boondoggle of all time in an era of administration boondoggles that defies belief.
The only real increase is in Medicaid. That is where the “navigators” have focused. Healthy working young adults are still not signing up. Many are finding ways to go into the underground economy and avoid both premiums and taxes. The more the cost to a person increases, the more incentive the person has to avoid that cost.
90% of buyers are doing it with someone else’s money
so it’s a no brainer
...and it’s intentional.
IMHO
Medicaid and SUBSIDIES for 0bolaCare are expanding. What’s not to love...for the Dims?
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