Posted on 11/05/2013 5:16:20 AM PST by tobyhill
About 17 percent of people who don’t have health insurance actually tried to buy some on the new marketplaces in October, a new survey published Monday indicates. And just 20 percent of those who did try managed to buy a policy, the Commonwealth Fund survey finds.
And health officials have made clear the frustrations will not be completely over for anyone, even by the end of the month. The troubled website crashed again Monday, its third complete outage in just over a week. But this time, technicians were able to get it up and running again after 90 minutes.
"We expect these occasional outages are likely to continue as a natural part of the process," Andrew Slavitt, a vice president at contractor QSSI, told reporters in a telephone briefing. "These outages are not unusual."
Teams working to repair the healthcare.gov site made "more than a dozen important fixes" to the site over the weekend, said Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the exchanges.
Teams upgraded hardware and added switches to external provider Verizon Terremark's part of the complicated website package to avoid any more outages like the two that happened last week, Bataille told reporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
2) If too few paying customers sign up at exchanges the subsidy wont matter, the insurance companies will have to charge astronomic premiums up front .
“If too few paying customers sign up at exchanges the subsidy wont matter, the insurance companies will have to charge astronomic premiums up front .”
Apparently not. The Obama administration was concerned by companies dropping out and so guaranteed a certain profit to each company regardless of who signed up. (Your tax dollars at work.)
It’s the lack of security. It’s like having sex with a $10 whore. If you don’t use protection, you’re gonna be sorry. That’s assuming you still have your wallet when you walk out of the alley, after...
Obama only said if you like your insurance you can keep it
He never said the cost would stay the same
For Obama, the fact that the website isn’t working is actually a blessing.
If it had been working all this time, the torches and pitchforks would be out in full force.
The closest I heard to that was that Obamacare will reimburse them for some limited losses, not that it hands them a profit no matter how much $$$ they lose.
If what you say was true then the exchange policies would be all cheaper than all the policies customers are getting now. They could be free even without the subsidy.
“If what you say was true then the exchange policies would be all cheaper than all the policies customers are getting now. They could be free even without the subsidy. “
It’s something called a “risk corridor.” Perhaps somebody who understand insurance talk can put me straight? My read was that it kicked in if there weren’t enough people signing up. (?)
Well, apparently, he only meant you could keep your insurance until the bill was passed.
Still waiting for the news story that *shows* a person who has purchased a policy *-AND-* has it in their hands.
Here’s the arithmetic hidden in the verbage
17 % tried to buy
20% of the 17% bought (they do not know with certainty what they think they bought)
20% of 17% = 3.4 %
A measely 3.4 % of those attempting succeeded
That means that 96.6% (of the uninsured)still don’t have insurance
Disclaimer.... Having not seen the source of the numbers I actually doubt the veracity. I do not think the authors know what they claim.
You sound knowledgeable... :)
“Frustration, uncertainty, DISTRUST, FEAR, SUSPICION, LOATHING, PRUDENCE keep people off health insurance sites.”
Accuracy in Media edit.
You sound knowledgeable... :)
Yeah, but I believe in learning from the experience of others. And I read. :-)
I always tell my kids - it’s good to learn from mistakes - OTHER PEOPLE’S mistakes.
The GOP needs to get out in front of this -
“pre-ridiculing”
those who WILL blame the GOP for the fiasco.
Once they can get on the website and get a look at the premiums, THEN the fun will REALLY start.
Larry Page at Google re Search: "We expect these occasional outages are likely to continue as a natural part of the process. These outages are not unusual."
Steve Jobs at Apple re AppStore and iTunes Store: "We expect these occasional outages are likely to continue as a natural part of the process. These outages are not unusual."
Jeff Bezos at Amazon re Shopping: "We expect these occasional outages are likely to continue as a natural part of the process. These outages are not unusual."
Reid Hoffman at LinkedIn re Recruitment: "We expect these occasional outages are likely to continue as a natural part of the process. These outages are not unusual."
Pierre Omidyar at eBay re Auctions: "We expect these occasional outages are likely to continue as a natural part of the process. These outages are not unusual."
Mark Zuckerberg at FaceBook re Social Media: "We expect these occasional outages are likely to continue as a natural part of the process. These outages are not unusual."
Elon Musk at PayPal re Web Payments: "We expect these occasional outages are likely to continue as a natural part of the process. These outages are not unusual."
In other words, three percent of those without insurance have obtained insurance. In most cases, they did so by joining Medicaid.
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