Obamacare “Enrollment” Explained
U.S. President Barack Obama has been downright giddy in touting the “improved” performanYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Oh, but plenty of people are getting their coverage through the exchanges, and plenty of people (despite Republican governors’ best efforts) have also signed on to the Medicaid expansion.
Have fun running on throwing those people back to the wolves, GOP. Welcome to 2014. The tides have changed, and you couldn’t swim in 2012 when they were with you. Grab a life vest!
And when Obama bails out the insurance companies as predicted, (see Investors Business Daily, multiple articles) with taxpayer dollars, whose fault will that be?
George W, Bush.
The actual numbers benefiting from the ACA is closer to 10Mil. Bless your heart.
That is an outright untrue statement. Go on and provide a link if you think otherwise.
It doesn’t matter to the yank if the numbers are right. She just wants to practice her cussing. My guess is she’s trying to play for the Red Hats
She can’t even read the number she linked too. She’s unable to process a spreadsheet.
I wouldn’t trust her to balance a household budget on the back of an envelope.
http://acasignups.net/spreadsheet
shit that’s pretty good. Obama doesn’t even have these numbers available from HHS. Maybe you should call him? Hmmmm????? Sweet thing! :-*
You are a disrespectful ass. just saying.
I knew you’s a yankee. Cain’t even spell sayin’
You didn’t really come here expecting to be involved in a “respectful” debate did you?
PRO TIP:
When proven wrong, a simple Rick Perry “Oops” will suffice. If you want to be all urban an sheet, a “My bad” (attributed originally to Manute Bol) is good. To appear sophisticated and educated use “Mea Culpa”.
Bonus PRO TIP:
On internet forums, sometimes it is best to not post a link and be thought of as perhaps an idiot; than to post said link and remove any lingering doubt.
Did you even read what you linked?
“CMS 3/31/14 Enrollment Projection”- 7 milliion
PROJECTION!
You go one column over, and you see where it says “Projection Reached”? The % is 33.65%, or 2.35 million
Sheesh.
Even further though, the 6 million claimed by some outlets comprises those that simply learned they had access to CHIP and/or Medicaid, so there’s double counting going on which brings the number back in line with the 2.35 million.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/01/the-truth-behind-obamacares-supposed-6.html
It’s a shame 4 million of those folks (according to your spreadsheet) were just shifted from an existing state program to a new ACA based program and that more than 4.7 million would have lost coverage if President Obama hadn’t punted (a million or so did anyway)
Had we just expanded Medicare or Medicaid we could have covered those needing insurance and left the rest of us alone cheaper and far more efficiently that the disastrous policy known as the ACA
If you like the numbers you can keep the numbers.
Here’s another surprise awaiting for those who need to await insurance confirmation before planning elective services, they need to spend 4-6k prior to the insurance even paying a dime. That’s the deductible which will be added to the monthly premium that many are not even paying. I checked on a couple of the plans in Charleston county and there are two participating hospitals (East Cooper and Trident Health system). Interestingly, there are almost no participating physicians (< 10 per plan). Given that MUSC has touted this Obamacare as a way forward, why are they not participating? Well, they are used to getting 246% of CMS Medicaid reimbursement and they are now being offered 85% of the CMS reimbursement. Guess we shall see how this all shakes out!
What difference at this point does it make?