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The Obamacare numbers still cannot be believed .... see the very last sentence.

[From Link: http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2015/02/obamacare-is-working-better-than.html#more ]

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Back Room Problems Persist
The original expectations for Obamacare extend beyond the enrollment.

The administration spent $2.2 billion on developing and fixing Healthcare.gov.

But 17 months after its original launch––and five years after the law passed––the backroom still has not been completely built.

There are now about 7 million people receiving health insurance premium subsidies in the federally run exchanges. But HealthCare.gov can’t pay the insurance companies. Insurers are still getting paid based upon a workaround that involves them manually filling out worksheets––for 7 million people. There is no formal date for when this will be fixed.

HealthCare.gov also can’t reconcile the cost sharing subsidies the lowest income people get form Obamacare––like lower deductibles and co-pays.

This lack of an automated enrollment process not only causes lots of headaches but also makes the enrollment numbers the administration is reporting awfully soft. One carrier told me they only ended up with half of the net January enrollments HealthCare.gov originally reported to them.