Obamacare's Failure In One Chart

zero hedge ^ | 10/18/13 | Tyler Durden

[Nachum]

Confirming our fears from a few days ago, the early numbers are in for Obamacare... and they are not good. Of course, listening to "bloggers" an be bad for your health, but it seems, very few of the million of "uninsured" have decided that it is as crucial as the "leader" has exclaimed. As Millard Brown Digital reports, fewer than 1% of those trying to register for health insurance under Obamacare have completed the enrollment process. The following inverted pyramid highlights the dismal reality of the Affordable Car Act so far...

 

 

[Pollster1]

many of those applications are being rejected once they are forwarded to the insurance companies because they are incomplete or have bogus information

Bogus information? Who says my info is bogus? My name really is King Barack Hussein Obama, I really am a drug-addicted deadbeat with no real job. I really do have a wife and two daughters, all of whom are pregnant smokers. Why don't they trust me?

[lurk]

The upside down pyramid could be drawn down smaller and smaller.

So you have 36,000 enrolled.

Trim that down to those who get through the qualifying and bill-paying steps.

Trim that down to those who actually get a doctor who will work with the plan.

Trim that down to actual treatment by a doctor.

[petercooper]

Like voter fraud, just under Obamacare. Typical corrupt Dims. The only bright spot is in this whole mess is the reaction of a typical brain dead liberal seeing his/her insurance rates tripling.

[JPG]

[ExTexasRedhead]

Hitler and Mussolini failed too. We know how that ended. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it!! Which we and our children and grandchildren are and will.

[null and void]

If that upside down pyramid was drawn to scale it would have an itty bitty needle tip.

And to reflect its heritage, rainbow colors...

[null and void]

[kabar]

My only concern is that we start using enrollment as a metric of the program's success. We know that eventually tens of millions will be forced into the system as employers drop the provision of health care and pay the penalties. It just makes good business sense to that.

The real metrics should be affordability of health care, the actual costs to the consumer including the amount of deductibles and co-pays compared to what they had before, and accessibility to medical care. The actual costs to the government need to be computed as well. Medicare costs nine times what it was supposed to cost. They are bankrupting the country.

[goodnesswins]

You forgot one....”Trim that down to the doctor actually getting paid.”

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Actually....you are right on the money!!! Obama is just like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Castro, Chavez, Caligula, Nero, Julius Caesar, inflexible, evil, mean spirited, power hungry, ego driven, tyrants, all, etc. All of these guys failed, Obama will, too!!! You cannot take a nation to the point where it cannot sustain itself.....and that is exactly what Obama is doing, along with his Obamabots cohorts and a lap dog media!!! It won’t work!!! Revolution has started....it is alive well and growing strongly!!!

[Taxman]

GREAT FIND!

Taxman Bravo Zulu!

I have sent it to my email list — lets take this viral!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, the system rubble will build around our ears until “do whatever it takes” will be the mantra. I’m not being dogmatic about any particular possibility at this point, though we all can make some guesses.

At that point the cracks and breaking will show us where the strong and weak points were in our system. Sometimes busting a thing is necessary to show its inner nature.

[GailA]

If they have to have 2 or is it 6 million healthy young people to offset us sick old geezers I don’t think they will make their goal or the deadline.

The 3 day stay and the ER I just went through is going to cost a big bundle. That Zoysin and PLEASE LOOK UP THE SIDE EFFECTS it is a horrible drug, was real expensive. The counter part in pill form different name, rifaximin is over $200 for 10 tablets, and TFL has it flagged.

I want the pharmacist to SHRED it. Already called and told them not to attempt to get it approved, not with it having the same side effects as the Zoysin.

http://www.drugs.com/sfx/zosyn-side-effects.html

http://www.drugs.com/sfx/rifaximin-side-effects.html