100K Enrollees, 5 Million Cancellations
On Wednesday, the Obama administration finally released its first numbers for Obamacare health insurance exchange enrollment dating from October 1 to October 31. The numbers were not pretty: just 106,185 people “selected a Marketplace plan” using the exchanges, after the administration predicted that 494,620 people would do so.Even the Associated Press was forced to lament the “dismal numbers.” The federal health care exchange signed up less than 27,000 people. Meanwhile, nearly 7 million people are expected to lose the insurance plans President Obama said they could keep. So far, five million have lost their insurance.
The state numbers were far from encouraging. Overall, the states signed up 79,391 people. California led the way with 35,364 people who have selected a plan (as opposed to 1 million who have lost a plan); New York came in second at 16,404 (at least 100,000 New Yorkers have lost their insurance); Washington came in third at 7,091 (290,000 have lost their insurance in Washington); and Kentucky came in at 5,586 (280,000 lost their insurance in Kentucky). The Department of Health and Human Services attempted to spin the numbers as a victory, proclaiming, “The first month enrollment experience in the Marketplace exceeds comparable first month enrollment in the Commonwealth Care program in the Massachusetts Health Connector.” But even the HHS was forced to admit that the total number represented just “1.5 percent of the estimated enrollees at the end of the 2014 open enrollment period.”
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Pelosi Claims Nearly 5X More Signed Up Than Numbers Show
November 13, 2013
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D- Calif.) tweeted out a claim that one million people have applied and are eligible to get insurance through the Obamacare marketplace and 500,000 have already secured coverage.However, the numbers released are not even close to her figures.
FACT: Despite website glitches, ≈1m have applied and are eligible to #getcovered on #ACA marketplaces. 500,000 have already secured coverage
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) November 13, 2013
Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this afternoon that 106,185 people have picked a plan as of November 2. Of those, 27,000 did so through federal exchanges.
Historically Black College Says Regs Forced Them to Cancel Student Health Plans
- Bowie State is among the oldest, and most elite historically black colleges in the nation.
- Student health insurance costs will rise from $50 to $900 per semester.
- White House says it has 'a bias in favor of historically black colleges and universities.'
- - See more at: http://campusreform....h.YbzKsICm.dpuf
