Posted on 11/11/2013 12:39:44 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Nearly 50,000 people have enrolled in 12 ObamaCare insurance marketplaces operated by states since Oct. 1, according to a new analysis.
The findings from consulting firm Avalere Health shed light on how many enrollees the administration may announce when it releases official sign-up data this week for the first time.
Administration officials have sought to lower expectations about the numbers, arguing they will be especially low because of the problems plaguing HealthCare.gov.
Past enrollment trends in Medicare Part D and under the Massachusetts' healthcare reform law also suggest that most people sign up right around enrollment deadlines.
"Enrollment in new programs begins slowly and often takes several months to build momentum," said Avalere CEO Dan Mendelson in a statement.
"While initial enrollment has been lagging, with aggressive marketing there is still time for awareness of the program to grow and participation to begin."
The 49,100 enrollees counted by Avalere represents just 3 percent of the total number expected to buy ObamaCare coverage in those states.
An unknown number of sign ups were for Medicaid, the public health insurance program for the poor, and not private insurance on the new marketplaces.
ObamaCare's state-run exchanges are seen as bolstering the law's performance as the 36 federally-run marketplaces affiliated with HealthCare.gov continue to struggle.
Monday's data did not include those who have signed up in California, a state that's expected to boast strong numbers, Massachusetts or Oregon.
Each state chose whether to run its own system or cede the task to the federal government.
50k looking for a hospital bed.
The headline is misleading.
It would be more accurate to say:
“49K enroll in state-based Obamacare”
Like the 30K-50K Obama said needed healthcare.
And how many Americans have been kicked off - - so far? 10-15-20-25-30 million?
“49K OWS enroll in state-based Obamacare”
Nov. 4 OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington Healthplanfinder today announced more than 55,000 residents have enrolled in health coverage since Oct. 1. Since launch, more than 100,000 people in Washington State have either fully enrolled in new health coverage options or completed an application that is awaiting payment due in December.
Of the "more than 100,000 people", 48,000 are Medicaid, so a little less than half.
Anyone who thinks accurate numbers are going to be reported wrt signups is completely delusional. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Democrats go to war for Obamacare; demand Issa withdraw subpoena "Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are calling on Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, to withdraw a subpoena he issued to compel U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park to testify at a Wednesday hearing before the committee on the rollout of President Obama’s health care overhaul.
“The evidence before our committee demonstrates that Mr. Park is an honest and exemplary public servant, and your unsubstantiated public attacks against his integrity are a deficient basis on which to justify a subpoena against him,” wrote Democratic Reps. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland and Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia. “Rather than denigrate Mr. Park’s reputation and impede his time-sensitive work, we request that the committee accept his reasonable offer to testify before the committee in December.”..........
“The state of Oregon has yet to enroll a single person into its state-run healthcare exchange, according to reports by The Associated Press and NPR released on Monday.
Oregon is one of 17 states that opted to run its own healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act, and the state has often been spotlighted by liberals as having implemented one of the country’s more ambitious healthcare overhauls.
But the state’s exchange has suffered technical issues similar to those affecting the federal system, and continues to sputter more than a month after its launch.
Oregon officials say the demand is there and that it’s scrambling to work through the 7,300 paper applications it has received. Officials also point to the state’s expanded Medicaid program, which it says has significantly cut down on the number of uninsured.
The Obama administration has said it will release enrollment data later this month, and is under intense pressure to fix the glitch-filled HealthCare.gov. The administration has conceded that the technical issues surrounding the website will cut into the initial enrollment figures.
Thirty-four states, many of them run by Republican legislatures or governors, have declined to actively participate in the federally mandated healthcare overhaul, opting instead to have the federal government run their state’s exchange through HealthCare.gov.”
I had read that to succeed, it needed to enroll 37,000 a day starting on Oct 1 to the end of the enrollments (March?) to succeed. In other words, if these numbers were for Friday, they are 1,400,000 short.
Only 6,950,000 to go!
Sorry to sound uninformed, but, is getting a government subsidy the same as signing up for Medicaid?
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