Posted on 04/03/2014 6:51:17 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Now topping more than 3 million, the number of Californians who have enrolled in a private health care plan or in Medi-Cal through the state's health insurance exchange will likely rise by about 500,000 people who started but did not finish their applications by Monday's midnight deadline, exchange officials said Thursday.
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According to the article:
Of the 1.2 million, 87 percent are eligible for federal tax subsidies. During that same time, he said, another 1.9 million people had signed up for Medi-Cal.
So three million have signed up and 1.2 million received a subsidy and 1.9 million are totally subsidized through Medi-Cal. 1.2 million plus 1.9 million equals more than 3 million. So taking the revised 3.5 million figure 3.2 million are taking from other folks for their health insurance. 300,000 Californians are paying their own way. Cause for celebration?
Another 500,000 registered democrat voters. They don’t have to vote democrat. But as long as they’re counted on the rolls as democrats their votes can be counted as democrat. That’s how the fraud works.
70% will be new residents looking for free everything.
As to your tagline… God save CA from any further desecration by crazed commonistas and communitarian communutty organizers et al
FMCDH(BITS)
CA suffers Democrat leadership as does much of the rest of the country.
IMO we also lead the way in new low IQ immigrants.
It appears already that Many if not most of the doctors want nothing to do with O care, however. I know of at least ten physicians attending friends who report their docs won’t accept it and won’t take its enrollees as patients.
How do docs know if a policy is bought from the exchange or direct from an insurance company?
Wow. Almost half of the 7 Mill from one state. One of the worst states politically in the USA.
I don’t know. Sorry. All I know is a lot of docs are sayi they won’t take O patients. And one small merchant friend who signed up reports his family doc is refusing the O coverage. And there have been news reports of wider non- acceptance by more doctors (but I have no contact with those people so can’t verify their difficulties). The ones I know do however report their docs say No.
Half of the 7 million are from California and 2 out of 3 of those are on Medi-Cal.
Ps. In addition to many doctors refusing O care patients, there are numerous articles about hospitals turning it down, too. The spin on these articles has usually been that the better or preferred or high-rated hospitals tend to be the ones that refuse it first. You can easily look these articles up. I would post a few links but can’t make this machine I’m using just now do fancy stuff like that. Sorry about that. But if u need help I can link u later if u wish when I get back to a better computer. Thanks.
How do docs know if a policy is bought from the exchange or direct from an insurance company?”
Any doctor’s office that knows what they are doing will be verifying your coverage and benefits before your first appt. Some of the questions I would hope they are asking the insurance carrier would deal with the specific type of coverage, source, what networks are included and what is the doctor’s rate under that plan.
Another question we now ask is whether the premium has been paid, for what period of time and what is their claim processing time.
For our patients who have regular Blue Cross coverage, payment for their billing is electronically deposited in doc’s checking account within 5 working days. We are still waiting for payment from early February services provided under Obamacare/Exchange plans. Aetna is the same time frame on both. Docs who have solo practices cannot afford to take very many from the Exchange plans or they will find themselves in financial straits in no time at all.
Amazing what happens when insurance is mandated and enforced by the IRS. Thanks to John Roberts.
Huzzah. 3.5 million people get something for free paid for by taxpayers. SUCCESS
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