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Low Obamacare Enrollment More Proof of a ‘Disaster’ (When ObamaCare Meets 'berg, Epic Fail haPPens)
Yahoo! News ^ | Eric Pianin, Brianna Ehley - The Fiscal Times

Posted on 11/12/2013 9:10:56 AM PST by NormsRevenge

Before Healthcare.gov’s troubled launch on Oct. 1, the White House estimated nearly 500,000 people would enroll in the Obamacare health exchanges within the first month and an estimated 7 million were expected to gain private coverage by the end of March, when the open-enrollment period is scheduled to end.

Now – even before the administration can deliver on its promise to release an official head count of how many people have enrolled for insurance coverage in the first full month of operations – insurance industry analysts on Monday released figures showing the government has signed up a mere fraction of Americans it had hoped to recruit in October.

Robert Laszewski, a consultant to many major insurance companies, said in an interview that about 50,000 people have signed up for coverage in the 36 states that have federally designed insurance markets – or about 10 percent of the overall goal for the first month. That figure closely matches the 40,000 to 50,000 enrollments reported by The Wall Street Journal on Monday afternoon. Laszewski based his estimate on the number of completed transactions between individuals and their families and insurance companies.

At the same time, Avalere Health, a health care consulting firm in Washington D.C., reported that 14 state exchanges have met just 3 percent of their enrollment goals for 2014. That means that 49,100 people have enrolled out of a targeted 1.4 million. This figure does not include data from California, Massachusetts and Oregon, which has not yet been released.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: aca; bailout; disaster; enrollment; epicfail; obamacare; obamadontcare; proof; toobig2fail
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To: DoughtyOne; NormsRevenge
Insert Titanic Theme song here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saalGKY7ifU
21 posted on 11/12/2013 9:39:22 AM PST by Grampa Dave (You can keep your doctor, health plan, and this is only a cold sore.)
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To: NormsRevenge

There are more uninsured today than there was when they passed this bill.

epic fail and lives are at risk.


22 posted on 11/12/2013 9:40:35 AM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: NormsRevenge

MAN this is big epic fail

I haven’t seen program fail since OH GOD I don’t know Heaven Gate the movie from 1980s that almost destroy United Artists for upteenth time LOL!


23 posted on 11/12/2013 9:43:06 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Red Badger

How many of them are merely transfers from old medicaid to new Ocare?


24 posted on 11/12/2013 9:46:40 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: AU72
The regime is counting as ‘signed-up’

Next, they'll be presenting website hits as "enrollees".

25 posted on 11/12/2013 9:50:31 AM PST by wbill
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To: NormsRevenge

Gee, I dunno. For some reason I’m reminded of the scene from “Saving Private Ryan” where the Germans have fallen from the pillbox, on fire.
After helplessly taking fire from these guys for over an hour, a GI yells “Let ‘em burn!”

That’s what I’m thinking. The B&O Special is just jumping track ... someone pop some corn!


26 posted on 11/12/2013 9:50:36 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: goodnesswins

Regardless of how many are duplicates, transfers or just simple inquiries, the point is that the whole system was predicated on MILLIONS of young people signing up in droves the pay for all the ones who have no insurance or are costly elderly patients. They got only the latter and none of the former. This ship is doomed.............


27 posted on 11/12/2013 9:51:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: NormsRevenge

They’re following the Dot.Com template of launching with a flawed business model in the hope that they will make it up in volume.


28 posted on 11/12/2013 9:53:24 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: NormsRevenge

LOL, such rich subject matter..., so little time.


29 posted on 11/12/2013 10:11:04 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, the Democrat Party, the Left in the U. S., have essentially become the 4th Reich.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Thank you Grandpa Dave.


30 posted on 11/12/2013 10:11:38 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, the Democrat Party, the Left in the U. S., have essentially become the 4th Reich.)
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To: bigbob

The only one’s signed up are the drones who can read and will get subsidized (free) health care.


31 posted on 11/12/2013 10:12:55 AM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: tips up
Wouldn't single payer necessitate another biggest tax increase in world history? Not trying to be a wiseacre axing this - but . . seems that there would have to be a way to pay for this besides just printing more worthless greenbacks.

Obama has promised not to raise taxes except on millionaires and billionaires -(his base)

32 posted on 11/12/2013 10:29:02 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Obamacare = UNinsuring the insured. THAT is the “million” number Obama was really talking about. The amount of folks that will LOSE their insurance.


33 posted on 11/12/2013 10:29:32 AM PST by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: atc23

Medicaid pays doctors/hospitals 50% of what medicare pays. If they merge the two programs, that alone would be a big savings. Problem is that no one will see these patients as they can’t survive as a business. The gov’t then takes over the physicians and the hospitals.


34 posted on 11/12/2013 10:33:05 AM PST by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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What an absolute waste of wealth.


35 posted on 11/12/2013 10:56:44 AM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: NormsRevenge

100% pure macaca.


36 posted on 11/12/2013 11:30:25 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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bfl


37 posted on 11/12/2013 11:43:19 AM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you Something wrong here wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: tips up

“Medicaid pays doctors/hospitals 50% of what medicare pays”

Appears to be .66 overall according to this table:

http://kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-to-medicare-fee-index/


38 posted on 11/12/2013 11:46:56 AM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you Something wrong here wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: steve86

Interesting table. Some more rural states have Medicaid that pays more than Medicare. Much variability among states and what is being billed.

Bottom line is that if physicians are shying away from Medicare, what happens when you offer them 2/3 of an already crappy rate?


39 posted on 11/12/2013 12:13:34 PM PST by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: tips up

Yes, those inverted ratios are odd. Was meaning to look into whether it is because Medicare is low or Medicaid is high.


40 posted on 11/12/2013 12:22:04 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you Something wrong here wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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