More ObamaCare successes

[Luddly Neddite]

The Obamacare Sign-Ups No One Is Talking About

But sign-up efforts in the states that aren't using Healthcare.gov tell a different story. These 14 states and the District of Columbia decided to create their own health insurance marketplaces, and some have seen tremendous success. Others, like Maryland and Oregon, are hampered by problems like those imperiling the federally run site.

Obamacare's fate in these states is just as uncertain as at the federal level, yet success there is crucial if the law is to take hold and thrive. Grass-roots, state-run success stories could inspire others to do more to help the law in the future, while failures could further undermine support for the entire endeavor.

Here's a look at sign-up efforts in the states that aren't using HealthCare.gov.

Just as we knew would happen. And, even the website is improving - more than 17thousand a day are signing up on line.

Obamacare website can now handle 17,000 people an hour - The Denver Post
Obamacare Site Can Handle 17,000 People an Hour, CMS Says - Bloomberg

Note to rw's - please don't comment on the content. Instead, please whine about the source and/or the poster. Thanks so much.

 

[waltky]

Granny says dey need to go back to the drawin' board an' start all over again...

Latest health law delay: small business website
28 Nov.`13 — Small businesses interested in buying marketplace health insurance plans for their workers will have to purchase them from agents, brokers or insurance companies for the next year, rather than through the government website.

The Obama administration, in yet another delay, is putting off the launch of its online portal to the health insurance marketplace for small businesses until November 2014. The move, announced Wednesday, was needed because repairs are still underway to the troubled HealthCare.gov website, which is the primary way for individuals to apply for insurance, and that has priority, federal officials said. The administration said the plan will still allow small businesses to buy coverage while avoiding a slowdown in technical repairs to the hobbled federal online site. Under the law, most small businesses do not have to provide coverage. But companies with 50 or more employees face a mandate to offer insurance or risk fines from the government in 2015.

The HealthCare.gov site, where individuals without employer-sponsored health care can shop for insurance, is now smoothly handling 25,000 users at the same time and is on track to meet its goal of handling 50,000 simultaneous users by Saturday, administration spokeswoman Julie Bataille said. "We have a lot of work left to do in the next few days," she added.

The small business marketplace, also called SHOP, was supposed to provide employers a new way to shop for coverage. The website was to make comparison shopping easier while promoting competition and keeping premiums down. The delay, which doesn't affect states running their own marketplaces, was met with frustration. "It's disappointing that the online portion of the federal small business marketplace through Healthcare.gov will be delayed, and it's important it get up and running as soon as possible," said John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business Majority, an advocacy group that supports the health care law. "However, it doesn't change the fact that the marketplace can offer the most competitive combination of price and quality for small businesses purchasing health insurance."

The National Retail Federation, which has been working to ease the law's requirements for its members, was less generous. "If the law is so burdensome for the administration to implement, just think how hard it is for small businesses, which are focused on growing a company, hiring new employees and assisting customers," Neil Trautwein, the group's top health policy official, said in a statement. Ohio's insurance director, Mary Taylor, a Republican who is also lieutenant governor, said in a written statement that the delay adds to the struggles of small businesses and "only further complicates an already chaotic insurance market."

More Latest health law delay: small business website

 

[oreo]

We have a "Black Friday sale" on the FREE medicade portion of Obamacare. Those that are actually pushing the BUY button is extremely low and very worrisome. They are calling it the death spiral of Obamacare. In fact, it's a national disaster.
State-run health care exchanges still struggling to see uptick in sign-ups | Fox News

PURPOSE OF OBAMACARE: to insure the unisured EFFECT OF OBAMACARE: uninsuring the insured.

 

[Sherry]

A good cheerleader never loses her spirit, no matter how many points her team is down.

 

[Listening]

He'll never return to the thread. He's a coward.

Things are going great ! You bet they are. This law is going to cost the dems the senate and the house will be more conservative.

We need Beddy.Bugbite and his ilk to keep believing.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The Obamacare Sign-Ups No One Is Talking About

But sign-up efforts in the states that aren't using Healthcare.gov tell a different story. These 14 states and the District of Columbia decided to create their own health insurance marketplaces, and some have seen tremendous success. Others, like Maryland and Oregon, are hampered by problems like those imperiling the federally run site.

Obamacare's fate in these states is just as uncertain as at the federal level, yet success there is crucial if the law is to take hold and thrive. Grass-roots, state-run success stories could inspire others to do more to help the law in the future, while failures could further undermine support for the entire endeavor.

Here's a look at sign-up efforts in the states that aren't using HealthCare.gov.

Just as we knew would happen. And, even the website is improving - more than 17thousand a day are signing up on line.

Obamacare website can now handle 17,000 people an hour - The Denver Post
Obamacare Site Can Handle 17,000 People an Hour, CMS Says - Bloomberg

Note to rw's - please don't comment on the content. Instead, please whine about the source and/or the poster. Thanks so much.

17,000 an hour! Amazing. Too bad no one can actually buy anything yet.

 

[Politico]

And when they do there is nothing at all zero even in place to dispense any of the money.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance - Investigations

 

[Stephanie]

ooooooooooo, a "couple" more

Celebrate, fireworks

Now how many MORE horror stories of people who have LOST their insurance policies because of the scam they call, ObamaCare?

hey they don't MATTER

 

[driveby]

The Obamacare Sign-Ups No One Is Talking About

But sign-up efforts in the states that aren't using Healthcare.gov tell a different story. These 14 states and the District of Columbia decided to create their own health insurance marketplaces, and some have seen tremendous success. Others, like Maryland and Oregon, are hampered by problems like those imperiling the federally run site.

Obamacare's fate in these states is just as uncertain as at the federal level, yet success there is crucial if the law is to take hold and thrive. Grass-roots, state-run success stories could inspire others to do more to help the law in the future, while failures could further undermine support for the entire endeavor.

Here's a look at sign-up efforts in the states that aren't using HealthCare.gov.

Just as we knew would happen. And, even the website is improving - more than 17thousand a day are signing up on line.

Obamacare website can now handle 17,000 people an hour - The Denver Post
Obamacare Site Can Handle 17,000 People an Hour, CMS Says - Bloomberg

Note to rw's - please don't comment on the content. Instead, please whine about the source and/or the poster. Thanks so much.

Awesome!

One day that website may be able to handle as much traffic as sites like Amazon and E-bay, the best part is, it only costed us $599,922,322.00 to build it, yay Obama....

 

[Stephanie]

You would think it would be embarrassing to seen as a politicians, lapdog, stooge, water carrier, Subject, cult member, etc

but some see no shame in it

 

[Zoom-boing]

I still can't get any info on any plan in my state. It keeps coming up 'zero' health plans available. Pos is pos. But we all knew that.

 

[koshergrl]

Sure they're signing up. But they aren't enrolled yet. I get calls every day from people who are pregnant, elderly, disabled...who have ongoing treatment...and their medical is CLOSING because it hasn't been PROCESSED.

Also, they are being very hush-hush about the eligibility requirements. Case workers no longer know what income standards are...except they know that the standards have been wiped from all the info they can access...and they have received notification that tanf clients will no longer be automatically eligible for medical. Medical is going to be removed from the poorest of the poor, families.And NOBODY who didn't have medical through the state previously has been enrolled.

So yeah, they get tens of thousands of hits. Then dhs offices across the nation receive calls from clients who are desperate and who haven't heard anything on their applications, and case workers have nothing to tell them...except to call and 800 number. They call the number, they wait for an hour and then they're disconnected.

 

[Listening]

And when they do there is nothing at all zero even in place to dispense any of the money.

Is there a button that says.....No, Thanks....I'll keep my existing plan ?

AAM (Affirmative Action Moron) told us that would be an option.

 

[Listening]

Has the board coward returned to defend his OP ?

He's still MIA on the 10 questions thread too.

Notice BDPoop hasn't joined in either.

The left is really the yellow-left.

 

[boedicca]

Here's another ObamaCare Success:

Boy, 7, born with rare cancer loses his insurance because of Obamacare...leaving his parents needing $50,000 to pay for life-saving chemotherapy

Little Hunter Alford needs chemotherapy to treat the rare and deadly cancer he was born with but has lost his health insurance under an administrative blunder seemingly caused by Obamacare.

While the president's signature policy promised that no one with a pre-existing condition would not be covered, the Affordable Care Act has seemingly caused the seven-year-old Gainesville, Texas, boy to face an agonizing wait for treatment as his parents battle to get him back on his insurance plan.

'Why would you cancel a kid?' asked his mother Krista Alford. 'I really want to send Obama and all of them pictures of my son. He has scars all over his head. He doesn’t want to leave the house because he’s afraid people are going to make fun of him because he’s bald.'...

Hunter Alford, 7, born with cancer loses insurance because of Obamacare | Mail Online


Just think how much money ObamaCare is saving taxpayers by killing off this kid before he becomes a drain on the system!

Hopenchange!

 

[asterism]

The Obamacare Sign-Ups No One Is Talking About

But sign-up efforts in the states that aren't using Healthcare.gov tell a different story. These 14 states and the District of Columbia decided to create their own health insurance marketplaces, and some have seen tremendous success. Others, like Maryland and Oregon, are hampered by problems like those imperiling the federally run site.

Obamacare's fate in these states is just as uncertain as at the federal level, yet success there is crucial if the law is to take hold and thrive. Grass-roots, state-run success stories could inspire others to do more to help the law in the future, while failures could further undermine support for the entire endeavor.

Here's a look at sign-up efforts in the states that aren't using HealthCare.gov.

Just as we knew would happen. And, even the website is improving - more than 17thousand a day are signing up on line.

Obamacare website can now handle 17,000 people an hour - The Denver Post
Obamacare Site Can Handle 17,000 People an Hour, CMS Says - Bloomberg

Note to rw's - please don't comment on the content. Instead, please whine about the source and/or the poster. Thanks so much.

There's a difference between some bureaucrat saying a site can handle 17,000 people and 17,000 people actually signing up.

Show us the proof that 17,000 people a day are signing up.

 

[Stephanie]

More wonderful news and success stories coming from, Obombcarefraud...Does your Dear leader give a crap?
Links in article at site

SNIP:
NYT: So, turns out that all of this Medicaid expansion actually might not necessarily mean more access…


posted at 3:01 pm on November 29, 2013 by Erika Johnsen






One wonders what the New York Times has been doing the past few years while conservatives were very vociferously warning about the entirely predictable, pending phenomenon:

But now, as California’s Medicaid program is preparing for a major expansion under President Obama’s health care law, Dr. Mazer says he cannot accept additional patients under the government insurance program for a simple reason: It does not pay enough.

“It’s a bad situation that is likely to be made worse,” he said.

His view is shared by many doctors around the country. Medicaid for years has struggled with a shortage of doctors willing to accept its low reimbursement rates and red tape, forcing many patients to wait for care, particularly from specialists like Dr. Mazer.

Yet in just five weeks, millions of additional Americans will be covered by the program, many of them older people with an array of health problems. …

Community clinics, which typically provide primary but not specialty care, have expanded and hired more medical staff members to meet the anticipated wave of new patients. And managed-care companies are recruiting doctors, nurse practitioners and other professionals into their networks, sometimes offering higher pay if they improve care while keeping costs down. But it is far from clear that the demand can be met, experts say.

No kidding. Read on for the many discouraging ways in which increased Medicaid rolls are likely to result in reduced access, poor-quality healthcare, and added fuel to the fire of widespread doctor shortages — and yet the Obama administration is still adamantly pushing the remaining resistant states to expand Medicaid as a miracle drug for expanding healthcare access.

ALL of it here
NYT: So, turns out that all of this Medicaid expansion actually might not necessarily mean more access? « Hot Air

Obama's "visions" of health care FOR ALL

 

[Zoom-boing]

He promised it would be up, running, and working as it should by today. It isn't. Surprise, surprise, he talked out of his ass and lied. Again.

 

[Listening]

"Obamacare Plans Are Worse In Every Regard" - Kevin Glass