Posted on 03/11/2015 10:38:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The Washington Health Benefit Exchange call center in Spokane is so busy that staffing has been quadrupled, with the center receiving up to 10,000 calls a day. The problem is not enough of those callers are actually signing up for insurance.
The state has enrolled 160,000 paying customers in ObamaCare exchange health plans but that's more than 50,000 short of goal, which has led to an extension of the enrollment deadline and a request that the Washington State Legislature fork over $125 million to fund the exchange.
Republicans are angry because they were told the exchange would be self-sufficient by the end of this year.
“I’m not advocating that they get the $125 million,” said Bruce Chandler of the Washington State House. “I don’t think the exchange has convinced us that that’s reasonable.”
Leading Democrats were also skeptical. They were expecting a much lower subsidy as the exchange bridges from federal seed money to being able to fund itself through premium taxes and fees paid by insurance companies and customers. Much of the money the exchange wants would go toward more advertising.
“I want to see what their outreach is,” said Democrat Ross Hunter of the Washington State House, “I don’t want a one-liner, because we’re going to make judgments about what is the effective amount of advertising.”
Only 14 states, including Washington, are operating their own ObamaCare exchanges and many are struggling to make it without help from taxpayers.
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To Washington....Boo Frickin’ Hoo.
Shut it down!
” The problem is not enough of those callers are actually signing up for insurance.”
Because these clowns thought it was free.
Heck, they’re only losing thousands of dollars per sign-up. They can easily make it up in volume.
LOL ...
“Heck, they’re only losing thousands of dollars per sign-up. They can easily make it up in volume.”
Don’t knock it! Madman Muntz did it with TV’s years ago. FWIW, I hope that the idiots in WA eat it big time. And also I hope all their mom and pop businesses go away thanks to the $15.00 minimum wage.
Then there’s the debacle in Oregon.
The government’s vig is never big enough.
Just raise taxes. Geez, do I have to think of everything?
Dummies rule here in the Puget Sound Region.
Everyone seems to think there is free healthcare, $15 an hour minimum per hour and yada yada.
Must be the rain that rots the brain.
Time for me to brush up my vocabulary. At first I thought you had misspelled vag.
All that Washington will have to do after the Supreme Court agrees with the Obama administration in June is to close its inefficient exchange and dump all the ObamaCare enrollees onto the federal exchange, and, by magic, all will be right with the world in the state of Washington.
The people can then walk happily into the sunset holding hands and singing praises to the great Obama for all his amazing work with ObamaCare.
Haha! I guess that would work too!
“Must be the rain that rots the brain.”
Shhh... They will attribute this to Globull Warning
Amazing incompetence Ping.
I didn't see that coming!
Since they raised the minimum wage, just add a, say $2.00/hr tax and get the money that way. Might teach some of the idiots a lesson.
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