Posted on 11/19/2013 8:08:23 PM PST by steve86
The pace of enrollment on Washington Healthplanfinder has picked up in November, according to the latest enrollment figures, released Tuesday by the Washington Health Benefit Exchange.
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The new number includes 86,657 people who have enrolled in Medicaid – compared with 48,324 who had enrolled in Medicaid by Oct. 31 – and 11,742 who have purchased a qualified health plan, compared with 7,341 in October.
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An additional 127,375 residents have either started applications or completed applications that still need to be finalized, according to the exchange.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.seattletimes.com ...
55-64 biggest age category for commercial enrollments, as many have feared.
The American taxpayer picks up the load. The federal government picks up the entire tab for the first three years of those added to the expanded Medicaid rolls and 90% thereafter. The states pick up the 10% along with about 50% of the costs for those enrolled in the traditional Medicaid program.
On average states pay 43% of Medicaid costs. Feds pay 57%
Washington state will have to pick up half the costs of the 39,830 while the feds pick up the full costs of the 48,827 for the first three years. The states are going to get screwed even the ones who didn't accept expanded Medicaid. Obamacare is adding to the original Medicaid rolls and the states have to pick up about half the costs.
Right but that is just for those previously eligible under the old rules. Under expanded Medicaid the feds pick up 100% for the first three years.
Washington cancelled its “Basic Health” program effective Dec. 31st (not ACA compliant) and will, in part, be using those funds to fund the “previously eligible” Medicaid enrollees.
Is that legal?
So why are we counting the 39.8K as enrolees when they were already on Medicaid?
So we have 46.8K newly on Medicaid and 11.7K buying insurance. So, 4 to 1.
And really only ~59K new “enrolees”.
My plan in Washington is going to cancel and they told me they will automatically put me in a bronze unless I sign up for something else.
I am not going to do anything so they cannot add me to the tally of enrollees on the website.
I am not so sure about that. I have overheard several lo- info voters saying just how wonderful it was their insurance did not go up much. They went on to laugh about how overblown the cost hike was. The fix is in and working as planned.
I am in NC. Since I don’t qualify for a subsidy, my insurance purchase did not involve healthcare.gov at all, it was strictly between me and BCBSNC. I never left the BCBSNC website, and gave very little personal info.
I didn’t even have to give any income info at all, just the basic personal info and a credit card for the first month’s payment.
When I applied at BCBSNC, it asked about a subsidy. It would have redirected me to healthcare.gov if I wanted to qualify for a subsidy. But I knew I did not qualify and answered no, so I never went to the government website.
We had a BCBSNC rep in to explain this to us, and she was right. No subsidy = no trip to healthcare.gov
They weren't already on Medicaid. They were already eligible for Medicaid.
Well, my insurance didn’t go up much, either. But that’s because they delayed the employer mandate a year. You tell your low-info friends, “Wait’ll next year!”
Won’t matter after 2014...
It’s confusing.
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