Maryland: 83 Percent of Obamacare Enrollments Are Medicaid

The Weekly Standard By Jeryl Bier 10:49 AM, May 16, 2016 ^ | The Weekly Standard By Jeryl Bier 10:49 AM, May 16, 2016 | The Weekly Standard By Jeryl Bier 10:49 AM, May 16, 2016

[MarvinStinson]

The Maryland Health Connection is the state's Obamacare Marketplace. Monday, an agency press release noted that Maryland "has cut by 40 percent the number of Marylanders who were eligible for private insurance coverage when the state marketplace began three years ago." However, the breakdown of that statistic reveals that only 165,000 out of more than one million sign-ups are non-Medicaid enrollments.

When the exchange opened three years ago, an estimated 405,000 people were eligible for private coverage. Three years later, that number has fallen to 240,000. But the press release notes that including Medicaid over one million have been enrolled in through the Maryland Health Connection. This puts the number of Medicaid sign-ups around 83 to 84 percent and private coverage around only 16 to 17 percent.

Maryland also notes in the press release that, including Medicaid, ninety percent of those enrolled through the exchange received either subsidized or free coverage:

[Graybeard58]

More “free” s***.

[the OlLine Rebel]

MD ping.

[Lorianne]

Oooo success!
Their stated goal was AT LEAST 50% of “newly insured” to be from expanding Medicaid.

Bet you a bag of jelly donuts this will be spun as success!

[the OlLine Rebel]

I knew it.

[kaehurowing]

Surprise!

[JediJones]

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good thing we elected a republican Senate to repeal this train wreck.

Spit.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah....

[cyclotic]

My daughter just signed up. she lives on her own but her income is low enough that she’s eligible for subsidies.

The only reason she bothered to enroll was because her annual cost was less than the irs penalty.

[sheana]

So hen you break it down only 6-7% of the sign ups got private, un subsidized, or non Medicaid Obamacare. Such a success!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

83 Percent of Obamacare Enrollments Are Medicaid

Medicaid = "single payer" = medical welfare.

[spintreebob]

Not just MD. In every state Medicaid is the #1 source of ACA so-called enrollments. The largest groups still uninsured is those still eligible to enroll in Medicaid. The second largest ACA enrollment is people that ACA pushed out of employer plans. The ACA has made almost no impact on those who choose to be uninsured, most of whom are in their 20s and 30s. Of those eligible, but not enrolled in Medicaid the single largest group is Hispanics, especially those of Mexican heritage. The navigators are extremely frustrated that these Hispanics are too proud to exercise their .

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yes, that Obamacare, it works sooooooooooo wonderfully!

Maryland “Freak State” PING!