More to the point, its the only affordable health plan people can sign up for that has no enrollment or eligibility restrictions.
I’m not surprised people are taking advantage of it, because let’s face it, the Obamacare health exchanges quite simply suck.
I own a small business and have a very low gross adjusted income.
We had private insurance, but our plans were cancelled. Our agent was also on the board in charge of implementing Obamacare, so she knew what she was doing when she tried to sign us up. The web site wouldn’t take our info (of course) so we had to do it over the phone. After working with the genius on the phone for over an hour, he says that no plans are being offered to us because our income is so low that we only qualify for Medicade.
So our choice was Medicade or nothing.
Guess what we chose?