More annals of the healthcare exchanges from Sally Pipes at Forbes:
Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have set up their own online exchanges. They’re faring little better than the federal exchange.
Take Vermont. In the Green Mountain State, 4,300 residents created state insurance accounts. But only 700 were able to apply for insurance — and just 115 of these folks were able to enroll.
In Maryland just 1,121 of the 25,781 people who created accounts were able to finish their online applications and get enrolled. That’s less than 5 percent.
And the exchanges in Vermont and Maryland are among the better-working ones.
Remember: the relevant metrics are not accesses, registrations, or even enrollments. The relevant metrics are enrollments for insurance (rather than Medicaid) under the healthcare insurance exchanges and the number of those enrollments of people who are young and healthy.
It’s still very, very early in the game.
“Remember: the relevant metrics are not accesses, registrations, or even enrollments. The relevant metrics are enrollments for insurance (rather than Medicaid) under the healthcare insurance exchanges and the number of those enrollments of people who are young and healthy.
It’s still very, very early in the game.”
Yes, but your comment deals not with the website, but the underlying economics of the scheme. Those won’t change in a week, a month……..or perhaps ever. We are not very, very early in the economics game. Its game over…………………or start over.
Currently, the fixation is less on the enrollment metrics than on the individual/small business HC policies being canceled. So far, that ‘metric’ is far greater than actual HC enrollments. Also, the factions of those applying for the free-to-low-cost medicaid expansion programs are far greater than those seeking insurance through the exchange markets — where the money to pay for the PPACA benefits was surmised to be generated.
This rush for freebies warrants troubling questions as to 1) how can the PPACA, at least in these early stages, ever be a cost-saving policy? and 2) how can we pay for this new ‘entitlement’ program? Where’s the money going to come from with a debt already in the $17 trillions?
This seems to illustrate the “best laid plans…” scenario, perfectly
More that lies underneath the tip of the PPACA’s iceberg:
“When you add those two parts together, you get to more than 40 to 67 percent of folks in the private market who cannot keep their policies even if they want to and the administration knew that,†she said.”
I’m taking wagers. How long until Jay Carney and Valarie Jarrett start calling it Nancy Pelosi’s “Affordable Care Act,” not ObamaCare? Funny thing, Obama associates tend to become extremely familiar with the underside of the chassis of a bus……….when things go wrong. Just ask the good Reverend.