The Obamacare Exchange Scorecard: Around 100,000 Enrollees And Five Million Cancellations
Tue 12 Nov 2013 03:43:57 AM PST · by grundle · 11 replies
Forbes ^ | November 12, 2013 | Avik Roy
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In the market for individually-purchased health insurance, more than 4.8 million Americans have received notices that their preexisting plans are soon to be illegal, and will be cancelled. Many more cancellation notices are imminent. But yesterday, the Wall Street Journal obtained information regarding the number of people who have signed up for new private health coverage under Obamacare: “40,000 to 50,000” for the federal exchange, and 49,000 for 12 of the 14 state-based exchanges. One official told Amy Goldstein and Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post that “the official figure will include people who have paid for a plan and...
ACA stats include expanded enrollee tally
Tue 12 Nov 2013 12:36:00 AM PST · by Cincinatus’ Wife · 6 replies
The Hill ^ | November 11, 2013 | Justin Sink
The Obama administration will count individuals who have selected a healthcare plan but not yet sent in their first payment when releasing a count of enrollees in the new healthcare exchanges, an administration official told The Washington Post on Monday. That decision should boost what are still expected to be a paltry number of early enrollees in the embattled ObamaCare plans. “In the data that will be released this week, ‘enrollment’ will measure people who have filled out an application and selected a qualified health plan in the marketplace,” the official told the paper. The distinction is an important one,...