[steve86]

At last report, nearly 470,000 individuals had signed up either for Medicaid or individual insurance through Healthplanfinder. Of those, 112,225 bought commercial health insurance plans — far behind the exchange’s Jan. 1, 2015 goal of 280,000 enrollees.

And the nagging question continues to lurk: How many of those 470,000 were previously uninsured?

[steve86]

Ping

[ClearCase_guy]

If they had a good story, they'd have precise numbers to shove at us.
They aren't giving us numbers? They don't have a good story to tell.

Good management involves metrics. Either they have no metrics (bad management) or they have metrics and they are ashamed. Either way, there is no ways these people have demonstrated competence.

[cuban leaf]

“Isn’t the goal of the entire act supposed to be about covering people who were not covered before?”

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If he was a democrat I’d say he is an idiot. But he is a republican, and posing the question to bring up the absurdity of such a claim.

[Calvin Locke]

From a article about a month ago, how many have actually paid the premiums for the ObamaCare plan?

[Chode]

[angry elephant]

Let me just say that without a precise counting, my son, DIL, grandson, granddaughter, my cousin, her husband, their twins, a friend couple with two children, the couple who owns a local spa, a couple who own a local restaurant, two other friends, and myself are counted in that number signed up. All were previously insured. All have lost their doctors, even those on the gold plan.

There are more, of course, this is just a small count of my closest friends and family.

[USNBandit]

The more important question for the state will be how many were eligible for the traditional Medicaid criteria and therefore be the responsibility of the state. Back in December when the first numbers were released the vast majority of people enrolled in the program were going into Medicaid, and about half of them were eligible for the old Medicaid .

[zeestephen]

As expected, people who cannot afford health insurance want FREE health insurance.

In January 2013, about 990,000 Washington residents did not have health insurance.

By January 2018, the Washington state goal was to enroll 338,000 of those people in Medicaid, which is free.

So what happened?

By March 2014 - almost FOUR YEARS before the goal - Washington state enrolled 357,000 previously uninsured residents in Medicaid!

What was the goal for paid policies?

By January 2018, the Washington state goal was to enroll 471,000 previously uninsured residents in paid policies.

By March 2014, just 112,000 residents signed up for paid policies, and no one knows how many of those people were previously uninsured.

[zeestephen]

Washington State

Most Current Statistics

01 October 2013 - 13 March 2014

Medicaid - Renewal - 370,000

Medicaid - Previously Eligible - 122,000 (First Time Enrolled)

Medicaid - Eligible Under New Rules - 235,000

Paid Policy Applicants - First Month Paid - 112,000 (61%)

Paid Policy Applicants - Have Not Paid - 72,000 (39%)