Posted on 11/06/2013 1:19:26 PM PST by tobyhill
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today acknowledged that long-awaited enrollment figures for the rocky first month of Obamacare will be “very low.”
“We intend to give you as much information as we can validate,” Sebelius told a Senate Finance Committee hearing where lawmakers from both parties harshly criticized the rollout and her agency’s lack of foresight about the massive problems. She said the initial batch of enrollment figures being released next week cover “the first month of enrollment” and will include both Medicaid and health plan numbers in the new insurance exchanges.
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Neither will the middle-aged ornery ones.
They can get away with that until the penalties force them to get something in future years.
And the low numbers will be blamed on ______ ?
We have to take that into consideration.
I'll bet there are even some libs with great insurance benefits but dropped it to pay more through the ObamaCare website just to make a political statement.
Leftists don't just put their political agenda ahead of country, they put it ahead of family too.
Bush, the Tea Party, honkies, guns, honkies with guns, solar flares, Climate Change...
Depends on which of the opposition makes them feel most threatened and vulnerable politically. I'd say Ted Cruz.
did Captain obvious finely pay her a visit?
It doesn’t count until they pay up and from the looks of it, they did the application and then realized it wasn’t “free” so they junked it along with the rest of their spam mail.
If you ask DUmmies or KOS kiddos, they’d candidly tell you it was because everyone was too dumb to know what’s best for them.
From the newly released War Room notes, as of 10/29: “Almost 4000 consumer applications have went into ESD, and 6000 applications are in a queue due to missing data or other issues. Key entry queue is about 1400 applications.”
Because we know all applications must filter through the website, the absolute maximum number of total enrollments (if you graciously add the 250 or so that are known about) would be no more than 11,650 as of 10/29.
Note she said she would be adding in all Medicaid enrollments with her number. That will bump it up to like a million.
Penalities will only force people not so like minded to get more creative in their refusal.
Seriously if the choice is between insurance with sky high deductables or the mortage, well then health care isnt going to be on the table and I can see about 7 ways to not participate without geving the feral government your hard earned money. or your life, for that matter.
The “Creepy Uncle Sam” video caused it!
Just like that video about Islam caused Benghazi!
Obamacare Yes they care a lot about how many are in the way of their agenda.....
Obamacare is a Globalism code word for Population control
The population has to be reduce by 2/3 in order for Marxism to work
It happen in the French and Russian Revolution as well as in the 3r world countries
So many have forgotten in Population control Global 2000
and Sarah Pailen coin Death Panels!
“GLOBAL 2000 REPORT”: Open Eugenics/Population Control…
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Doesn't matter. Low numbers don't hurt the government. They only hurt the insurance companies. They - not the government - are the ones that are counting on young healthy people paying exorbitant premiums. As far as the government is concerned, they would prefer these people not join the exchanges and pay the tax to the government instead.
Besides, the government has something that the insurance companies will never have - a printing press. So young people don't sign up, insurance companies go out of business, and the government takes over the insurance market. It's all part of the plan.
Wow. Young healthy people are not spending money they don’t have on something they don’t need?
Who would have guessed?
Listening to Sebelius today I gathered no person(s) is/are to blame. Somehow this quagmire just came up from hell from who knows whence. You would think that all these august politicians looking for causes could use the power of government which is used all the time on ordinary citizens to find the blame for the debacle be it by chance or by even Obama and his court of enablers.
1) Only people with significant income are subject to meaningful penalties.
2) People with significant income often, obviously not always, have insurance through jobs.
3) Adult “children” (an oxymoron — but the Democrats thrive on immaturity) up to age 26 can stay on Mommie and Daddy’s policies. This group is massively unemployed or underemployed due to Obamanomics.
4) Wouldn’t it be interesting to see an analysis of just how many young people without insurance have sufficient income to worry about the penalties. And how much “new money” they could theoretically inject into the system to offset the massive costs of ObamaCare subsidies. Does it pencil?...
As a parent of a 24 year old and a 27 year old, I can’t see any NEW (paying) insured in this bunch. They are either:
—On Mom & Dad’s policy (My younger son)
—Covered by an employer
—Eligible for Medicaid under the new rules
—Working but not covered, Mom did the work to get them insured in the individual market with a cheap policy (My other one)
—Working, not covered, and don’t care.
So where are all the new policies going to come from? My eldest will have to go into a new policy since he is not grandfathered, but he was already insured.
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