Obamacare enrollment hits 4 million

[kidrocks]

YES!

Despite a messy roll-out and struggling online exchanges, 4 million people have enrolled n health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The latest milestone comes as we head into the last five weeks of open enrollment for this year—

 

[DiamondDave]

And how many lost care? And what was the 'target number'?

Regardless.. it is still a disaster

 

[Jarhead]

YES!

Despite a messy roll-out and struggling online exchanges, 4 million people have enrolled n health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The latest milestone comes as we head into the last five weeks of open enrollment for this year—

Three questions...

What percentage will be getting subsidies?
What percentage is young and not a financial burden on the system
What percentage are replacing the policies they lost without choice?

Numbers alone mean nothing.

The question is "will it be sustainable"....

And for some reason, I don't hear percentages that make sense for that goal.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

And we're supposed to believe that after he told the mother of all lies.

 

[Ame®icano]

And it's all voluntary.

 

[The T]

And how many lost care? And what was the 'target number'?

Regardless.. it is still a disaster

4 million out of how many in this Republic? If I were the op? I'd be embarrassed.

 

[The T]

And we're supposed to believe that after he told the mother of all lies.

Didn't Sebelius tout that 7 million was their target by the end of March, and now denies it throwing it to the CBO...Talk about lies...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that the administration never had a 7 million enrollment target for Obamacare, backtracking on comments she made last year volunteering that figure.

"First of all, 7 million was not the administration. That was a CBO, Congressional Budget Office prediction when the bill was first signed," Sebelius said in an interview with HuffPost Live.

"I'm not quite sure where they even got their numbers. Their numbers are all over the board, and the vice president has looked and said it may be closer to 5 to 6."

The comments appear to contradict what she told NBC News the day before the launch of the troubled healthcare site last fall when she said that "success," in her opinion, would be having 7 million Americans enrolled in the Obamacare exchanges by the end of March.

"I think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of March 2014," Sebelius told NBC's Nancy Snyderman on Sept. 30.

Sebelius Denies 7 Million Was Obamacare's Target

So I don't know what the OP is trumpeting? Maybe more failure?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

YES!

Despite a messy roll-out and struggling online exchanges, 4 million people have enrolled n health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The latest milestone comes as we head into the last five weeks of open enrollment for this year—

Three weeks ago you said 7 Million enrolled

WTF

 

[The T]

Better OP Title...Lying LIARS and The Psychophants that support the lies...

 

[The T]

YES!

Despite a messy roll-out and struggling online exchanges, 4 million people have enrolled n health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The latest milestone comes as we head into the last five weeks of open enrollment for this year—

Three questions...

What percentage will be getting subsidies?
What percentage is young and not a financial burden on the system
What percentage are replacing the policies they lost without choice?

Numbers alone mean nothing.

The question is "will it be sustainable"....

And for some reason, I don't hear percentages that make sense for that goal.

Doesn't appear that the young folks these Statists were relying upon to fund it are signing up either.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

so we lost ~4 million plans, then gained 4 million. Shit! Only 46 million people to go! WOOOHOO!

 

[Zander]

4 million enrolled? that is so, well, underwhelming......I'd be ashamed.

I wonder how many have paid their first premium?

According to the insurers- at least 20-30% have not paid.

Insurers: At least 20% of new ObamaCare sign-ups failed to pay their first premium on time « Hot Air

Is it “only” 20 percent who haven’t paid, though, or is the actual number even bigger? The Times is guesstimating based on what they’re being told by different insurers, but read down into the piece and you’ll see that the biggest companies are seeing payment rates below 80 percent — another detail flagged by Laszewski when he wrote about this a few days ago. Eighty percent is probably the best-case scenario:

Matthew N. Wiggin, a spokesman for Aetna, said that about 70 percent of people who signed up for its health plans paid their premiums. For Aetna policies taking effect on Jan. 1, the deadline for payment was Jan. 14, and for products sold by Coventry Health Care, which is now part of Aetna, the deadline was Jan. 17…

Kristin E. Binns, a vice president of WellPoint, said that 76 percent of people selecting its health plans on an exchange had paid their share of the first month’s premium by the due date of Jan. 31. The company had received more than 500,000 applications for individual coverage through the exchanges in 14 states, she said…

One big company, Humana, said it had received 200,000 applications for insurance through the exchanges. “About 75 percent of the people paid, and 25 percent did not pay,” said Thomas T. Noland Jr., a senior vice president there. Customers had until Jan. 31 to pay for coverage that took effect on Jan. 1.

 

[Antares]

I have enrolled close to 500 families myself, it is easily 70/30 those who already HAD insurance.

 

[william the wie]

We will start learning about enrollments net of cancellations later in the year. So far little or no information is available and areas of concern are many:

network density

Doctors who are in Network but who do not accept medicare/medicaid

How many plans cover both drugs and specialists needed for pre-existing conditions

The drip-drip of Ocare bad news has just begun.

 

[blackhawk]

Six million had there plans cancelled so Obamacare has not even covered those who lost their plan because of it.

 

[Rozman]

And how many lost care? And what was the 'target number'?

Regardless.. it is still a disaster

Kathleen Sebelius is on record in a video saying 7 million was the target number....
Kathleen Sebelius is on record in a video when asked recently at the 3 million mark for sign ups if they would reach their target of 7 million....

Kathleen responded that no one said 7 million was their target.....

And she's the one running this thing....

Shameful...

 

[Defiant1]

How many are enrolled with the insurance company of their choice?

How many have paid?

it is my understanding the back end that sends the application to the individual companies still doesn't work. The applications are being sent manually. Therefore just because someone is enrolled on Obama's site doesn't mean they are enrolled with the insurance company.

And if they are enrolled with the insurance company it doesn't mean they have paid the first bill.

And if they paid the first bill it doesn't mean they have paid subsequent bills.....

 

[Rozman]

They might have signed up.
They might have paid but has that payment made it's way all the way through.
Most of them might be getting the subsidized version...

Still very far from the enormous success the Libs here want everyone to believe....

And still the Libs here wont talk about the fact that the 48 million that needed insurance that Obama talked about all the time are nowhere to be found.

 

[Rozman]

And how many lost care? And what was the 'target number'?

Regardless.. it is still a disaster

7 million was the target number for signup.
5 million lost coverage...
4 million signed up....

And this is a success....

Only in Obamaland....

 

[Spiderman]

Tell me does "enrolled" actually mean paid premiums?