ObamaCrapCare Numbers Are Coming In Worse Than Expected!

Jay Carney’s Lie Of The Day: We Don’t Have Numbers, But Theirs Are Wrong

May 1, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk 

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Answering a question about the number of paid Obamacare premiums Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that the Obama Administration doesn’t know how many people have paid, and are therefore signed up, for Obamacare. But, the spokesman added, any numbers that make the White House look bad are wrong.

The question stemmed from a House Energy Committee report which stated, “as of April 15, 2014, only 67 percent of individuals and families that had selected a health plan in the federally facilitated marketplace had paid their first month’s premium and therefore completed the enrollment process.”

Furthermore, only one quarter of the paid enrollees fall in the 18 to 34 age bracket necessary to keep Obamacare afloat.

Reporter Chuck Todd asked how the findings stacked up against the White House’s figures.

“We dispute their numbers. We don’t have hard, concrete numbers, but we dispute them,” Carney said.

The press secretary added that the data the White House disputes comes from “profit-making” companies, so it is invalid.

Enrollment Numbers For ObamaCrapCare Still Puny. Of Those Enrolling, How Many Will Actually Pay A Premium By The End Of The Month To Activate Their Insurance? Our Guess Is Less Than 75%.

How many in Georgia, Alabama have

enrolled in Obamacare?

BY ADAM CARLSON

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FILE - This Nov. 29, 2013 file photo shows part of the HealthCare.gov website, photographed in Washington. President Barack Obama’s fickle health insurance website is finally starting to put up some respectable signup numbers, but its job only seems to have gotten harder. Two months in and out of the repair shop have left significantly less time to fulfill the White House goal of enrolling 7 million people for 2014 by the end of open enrollment March 31.

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Wednesday morning, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the latest enrollment figures for the Affordable Care Act, going through the end of November. The news is good and bad for basically everyone who has an opinion on the law.

The facts: in Georgia, about 61,000 applications for insurance were received through the federal exchange, HealthCare.gov, from Oct. 1 through Nov. 30; 6,800 people enrolled in a plan; and 10,925 were deemed eligible for Medicaid.

In Alabama, about 25,300 applications for insurance were received through the federal exchange; 3,448 people enrolled in a plan; and 3,066 were deemed eligible for Medicaid.

(Both Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and Alabama Governor Robert Bentley have rejected a state expansion of Medicaid, which the federal government will significantly subsidize. "The 620,000 new enrollees would have stretched our resources and our state to the limit," Deal said back in January.)

Nationally, about 1.9 million applications were received; 365,000 people enrolled in a plan (137,000 through the federal exchange; 227,000 through the various state-run exchanges); and 803,000 were deemed eligible for Medicaid.

These figures are significantly larger than October's enrollment numbers, but still far short of the federal government's projections, which estimated 1.2 million people would enroll through either the federal or state exchanges by the end of November. The White House maintains that enrollment will continue to accelerate as the Dec. 23 deadline, to purchase coverage beginning Jan. 1, approaches. Open enrollment closes March 31.

“Evidence of the technical improvements to HealthCare.gov can be seen in the enrollment numbers," HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement. "More and more Americans are finding that quality, affordable coverage is within reach."

Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/12/11/2850579/georgia-alabama-november-obamacare.html#storylink=cpy

New Film: ObamaCrapCare--The Federal Program Which Couldn't

News That’s Too Bad To Spin: Obamacare Has Enrolled 3 Percent Of Its Target Customer Base

November 13, 2013 by Ben Bullard 

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If you started a company with a fully subsidized startup cost and were granted free publicity months ahead of your product launch that got your product in front of every eligible buyer in the United States, would you be disappointed when your product achieved a 3 percent market share in its first month?

What if the court system had cleared a path for your ambitions to reach monopolistic proportions by giving you permission to dictate to your competitors what they could or couldn’t sell? What if the government set the wind at your back with buyer mandates and a guaranteed market presence in all 50 States?

Even assuming all your startup costs had been paid by a mysterious benefactor and you had no financial skin in the game until the day your widgets hit the market, would you even want to stay in business after you mustered a 3 percent market share? Or would you cut your losses before you incurred any and try your hand at something else?

Government doesn’t have to play by any of the rules that force free markets to be profitable, so it can cruise along indefinitely — or until its financiers grow restless enough to revolt against its policies — by pumping money into a sinking ship.

And according to a Reuters report Monday, that’s the shape of things in the early going for Obamacare, which has managed to enroll only 3 percent of the number of people the Department of Health and Human Services predicted it would. The kicker is that 3 percent is an optimistic figure, one that derived from Obamacare enrollment statistics in the 12 States where online health insurance exchanges are “mostly working smoothly,” according to the report.

HHS expected the State-managed exchanges to enroll 1.4 million people for 2014. They’ve enrolled 49,100 instead. Of course, the enrollment period is ongoing through March 31 of next year. But there’s no universe in which the sign-up rate will accelerate rapidly enough to come anywhere near the 1.4 million target by the time the enrollment period ends.

“Supporters of Obamacare and health insurers fear that scant participation in the private insurance exchanges will prevent them from becoming a sustainable new individual market, including the right mix of young and healthy members to offset coverage for older, sick people,” Reuters observes.

And those are the “supporters.” Far down in the same article, another revealing nugget demonstrates just how doomed the as-implemented configuration of the Affordable Care Act truly is: Part of the paltry 49,100 tally of new Obamacare enrollees includes people who’ve signed up for Medicaid.

And when the Obama Administration finally divulges some numbers on how many people have signed up in all States, as is expected later this week, those numbers – however meager they will appear – will nonetheless be inflated by the White House’s inclusion of anyone who’s put insurance in his or her online shopping cart at Healthcare.gov.

“Health insurance plans only count subscribers as enrolled in a health plan once they’ve submitted [sic] a payment,” The Washington Post reported Monday. “That is when the carrier sends out a member card and begins paying doctor bills.

“When the Obama administration releases health law enrollment figures later this week, though, it will use a more expansive definition. It will count people who have purchased a plan as well as those who have a plan sitting in their online shopping cart but have not yet paid.”

Lest you need some evidence that the Administration is doing everything it can to spit-shine the Obamacare disaster with unsustainably deceitful tactics, check out the latest “glitch” in the online marketplace: About 8,000 would-be shoppers at the Washington State Obamacare website were informed they would qualify for a healthcare subsidy on their tax returns.

But after following through with their Obamacare purchase, those same customers were informed the prices they’d been quoted were too low and that they don’t, in fact, qualify for the generous subsidies and low prices on which they made the decision to buy the coverage in the first place.

“That led many enrollees in the Washington exchange to select generous insurance plans they likely won’t be able to afford once their subsidies are reduced,” reports The Hill. “Those 8,000 individuals likely will need to go through the entire application process again to see what plans at what prices they qualify for under the correct tax subsidy.”

ObamaCrapCare Enrollment Numbers Forcibly Released. It Ain't Pretty

Report: Only 6 People Enrolled in Obamacare on First Day

Thursday, 31 Oct 2013 10:27 PM

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Only six people signed up for Obamacare through the federal exchanges on the first day of operations, CBS News reports.

The HealthCare.gov website set up for people without employer-sponsored health plans repeatedly locked people out from the moment it went online on Oct. 1.

Congressional Republicans and members of the media have asked Health and Human Services officials how many people have signed up, but have been told figures won't be available until mid-November, when they can be compiled for the entire month.

But a document subpoena from the House Oversight Committee was able to find that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services held "war room" meetings twice a day as the website rolled out.

The documents, which also were obtained by CBS, show that only six people had successfully signed up on the first day. By the middle of the second day about 100 had signed up, and by the last meeting on Oct. 2, 248 had enrolled nationally.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has told "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart  andCNN's Sanjay Gupta she didn't know precise figures. CMS chief Marilyn Tavenner likewise provided no figures when she testified before the House Ways and Means Committee this week.

Instead, Sebelius and the White House have said millions of Americans have looked at the site and hundreds of thousands have created accounts. The White House said the website had 4.7 million unique visitors the first day.

Critics have speculated that actual sign-ups have not been released because the number is embarrassingly low.

The documents obtained by the Oversight Committee clearly show that exact numbers were available from launch. The phrase "Statistics coming in" is included in notes of the first meeting on Oct. 2. "(Contractor) QSSI has a daily dashboard created every night."

Contacted Thursday by CBS News, HHS still said it had no concrete figures, explaining that the numbers may not include other methods of signing up, such as with paper applications. The White House told Fox News the numbers are not official.

"These appear to be notes, they do not include official enrollment statistics," Sebelius' spokeswoman Joanne Peters told Fox News.

Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly expressed surprise at the figure.

"There are more people in this room than signed up for Obamacare on Day One," she said.

Up to 7 million uninsured people are expected to sign up through the exchanges. Open enrollment ends March 31, but people have to sign up by Dec. 15 to have coverage on Jan. 1.

Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor who advised the state of Massachusetts and the federal government on their universal healthcare plans, told CNN that Massachusetts' plan, dubbed "Romneycare," started slow as well, and predicted numbers would pick up.



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