ObamaCare Week 26: New Enrollment Milestone

Posted by mminnick 11 years, 7 months ago to Politics
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Don't believe the numbers. No one really knows who has paid and who hasn't. If you don't know that, you don't know how many are enrolled.

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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hilary will move everybody to a single-payer system. It has been a goal of hers for a long time. Though, I don’t think she would have ever stooped to dressing up doctors in white lab coats, then having them pose on the White House lawn, fraudulently passing them off as supporters to the press. Obama is much more the used car salesman.
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  • Posted by $ amiga 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Repeal and do not replace. Nothing in the Constitution permits the federal government to involve itself in health care in any way. Period.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, but ...
    A real crisis may be just what "they" are hoping to create. They don't let a crisis pass by unused, and I think the purpose of the ACA crisis is to scrap ACA by moving EVERYBODY into Medicaid, the new "single-payer" system.

    "We realize how disappointed everyone is in the ACA, but the NEW AND IMPROVED version of MEDICAID will solve all those problems. Oh, and all you doctors, all you hospitals? You're all Federal employees now. Don't open your mouths with complaints, and don't try to quit. Quitting is treason."

    Maybe I'm just flapping my wings or my jaw. Someone else runs the zoo.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Somewhere I picked up that about 60% were former insurance holders, that got dropped or dropped voluntarily so that they could pick up the exchange based insurance plans (and many of them did so because they now qualified for Medicare). So, take the 80% estimate that have actually paid, and subtract the 60% that had insurance previously, and you get about 20% of new enrollees that previously weren't insured. That's about 1 million of the estimated 30 million that were the reason that we created this monstrosity to begin with, or a little over a 3% success rate. If this were private business, the whole management would be canned by now.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank-you for that. I’m hoping for a real crisis like when they rolled out the website. Pretty-please.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wouldn’t that answer come by way of an educated guess made by a number -cruncher? I don’t think that data is really being collected. I haven’t ventured onto any of the websites so I don’t know what questions they ask when you sign-up, but I don’t think they ask about your former policies, do they?
    How would they know?
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  • Posted by mminnick 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A question I have not seen answered is how many of the 5M are people who had coverage and lost it vs how many uninsured . No one is answering that question.
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