OK, so 7 million have signed up.
Of that 7 million about 1 million have not paid. Of that figure 4 million are the result of cancelled insurance That leaves <2 million previously uninsured that now have their own insurance....... glory be.
Then they actually get the pig in a poke they bought and discover there is nothing there. They pay a premium and then some deductible and poof...... their money is gone. They actually got nothing. But, they had to buy the policy to learn what was in it.
That means the second or third or forth premiums will not be paid. At some point when many folks learn the poke contains no pig, they will cease paying the premiums
It's important to remember that many low income folks go straight to Medicaid under O-Care.
Here in Washington state we have added 403,000 to Medicaid in the last six months.
268,000 - Because of new expanded Medicaid rules.
135,000 - Previously eligible, but first time sign up.
If Washington state is “average,” that means, nationally, 18.3 million new people on Medicaid in the last six months.
I don't know how that number compares with pre-ObamaCare years.
And, I'm sure many people leave Medicaid each year, too.
Very, very hard to make sense of all these numbers.
Non-payment.
On 23 March 2014, here in Washington state, 34.7% of new sign ups had NOT paid.
The claim that, nationally, only 15% to 20% have not paid, sounds bogus to me.