Stuff in the Wall Street Journal today about how the insurance companies are worried.
WSJ seems to have found a leaker who gave them a figure of 50,000 enrolled, and they checked this with legitimate sources, who said it sounded about right.
I would bet that even if the insurance companies know they are going to lose out in the end, the particular executives who were in charge when this fiasco was created, and still are now, were kicking the can down the road: As long as they were packing away their fat salaries and who know what else for the next few years, they were happier than they would have been with single payer.
I’ve noticed that when men are taking care of their own families, they have a gold-plated excuse to behave in a way that would otherwise be considered unethical.
IIRC Obamacare passed on the premise that it was 10 years of payments for 6 years of benefits.
That had to be factored into the debacle.
them a figure of 50,000 enrolled, and they checked this with legitimate sources, who said it sounded about right.
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Chris Plante (WMAL AM630 DC) was ‘playing’ with the #’s today..said the leak was about 49,100 enrolled BUT he thinks that will include the people that put stuff in their ‘check out box(?)’, not just those that actually purchased.
Anyway he trotted out the # 67mill to sign 50,000 former ACORN and COmmunity Organizer types ....which, for 6 weeks, even using THEIR own numbers is less that 1 per.
Someone called in and said ‘YOU would at least think, for appearance sake, they would have made the 50,000 sign up.
Oh well,
Joseph Heller couldn’t dream up a scenario like this....