Posted on 04/13/2014 5:29:55 PM PDT by markomalley
Obamacare has reportedly enrolled 7.1 million individuals since its exchanges opened in October. However, according to a recently released RAND report, just 1.4 million of those individuals were previously uninsured.
Avik Roy of Forbes reports:
Last week, I wrote about an article in the Los Angeles Times, on a then-as-yet unpublished report from the RAND Corporation. The report indicated that only one-third of Obamacare’s purported 7.1 million exchange sign-ups were from the previously uninsured. But Noam Levey, the author of the Times article, didn’t disclose RAND’s actual findings as to the actual number of previously uninsured exchange enrollees. Well, now we know why. RAND published the full report yesterday; it indicates that Obamacare’s exchanges only enrolled 1.4 million previously uninsured individuals.
That 1.4 million is out of a total of 3.9 million exchange enrollees overall. That is to say, a little over a third of enrollees—36 percent—were previously uninsured. RAND’s figures don’t take into account the last few weeks of the Obamacare open enrollment period, and they contain a substantial margin of error, due to the study’s small sample size. (RAND surveyed 2,425 individuals aged 18 to 64; the 1.4 million figure has a margin of error of 700,000, meaning that there is a 95 percent probability that the actual number is between 700,000 and 2.1 million previously uninsured enrollees.)
If you assume that 80 percent of signer-uppers will eventually pay their premiums, the true number of previously uninsured exchange enrollees is likely closer to 2 million. That’s far from what the Congressional Budget Office has projected; the CBO estimated that 80 to 90 percent of the first-year enrollees would come from the previously uninsured population. Instead, it appears to be more like 24 to 36 percent.
I’d like to see better proof, but this is the number I’ve been waiting for.
So, the Democrats have destroyed American healthcare for 1,400,000 people?
All the while not repealing the ‘just go to the ER for free care’ law?
All this mess and esxpense for that??!!!?
None of that matters. As far as Obama is concerned, Obamacare is a success and beyond debate.
After all, signups are Mission Accomplished.
1. People who had insurance and lost it and signed up for Obamacare.
2. People who never had insurance and signed up for Obamacare.
3. People who had insurance and don't have it anymore because of Obamacare.
I suspect that Group3 will be as large as Group2. So what have we accomplished?
And they were in prison.
I’m not surprised.
4) people who were already qualified for medicare,
but for what ever reason had never signed up for it.
5) people who became qualified for medicare
under the new definitions/expansion.
Well the new bimbo in charge at HHS will be prepared to blame the old bimbo in charge at HHS for that failing .... but there are no real consequences for any of them.
4) people who were already qualified for medicare,
but for what ever reason had never signed up for it.
5) people who became qualified for medicare
under the new definitions/expansion.
Do you mean MEDICAID....state programs?
This is the party that surveyed, knew, tabulated and spreadsheeted what everyone’s favorite TV shows were in the time before the 2012 election. They knew which magazines every voter subscribed to. They knew how often every person checked their Facebook account. They knew what kind of car they drove and how old those cars were and how many miles those people drove per year.
To be honest, I haven’t applied for 0care, but it is absolutely impossible for me to believe that any applicant wasn’t asked if they had existing health insurance and what they paid for it or whether their employer supplied it.
The very idea that the admin cannot answer the question of how many net new signups there are is ridiculous on its face. The idea that ten days before the Mar 31 deadline they did not know or would not say the number of applicants, yet suddenly, on the morning of Apr 01 they knew that 7.1 million had signed up is ridiculous beyond words.
Furthermore, the Medicaid enrollees need to be discounted as well.
Surely you’re not suggesting Obastard lied to us?
Yes, I did mean to say medicaid.
The clear solution to this problem is for the governmrnt to exterminate those that do not sign up for Obammycare!
They are still being carful to use the word signed up instead of enrolled. Tells me they are counting head of site visitors not actual enrollees.
and all the ones who qualified for Medicaid.
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