BOOM: Obamacare Hits Milestone Of 6 Million

exGOPer · Mar 27, 2014

Six million Americans have signed up for private health coverage under Obamacare, multiple administration officials confirmed to TPM.

The latest enrollment milestone was first reported by ThinkProgress. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius then announced the news.

The news comes several days before Obamacare's open enrollment (mostly) closes on March 31.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obamacare-6-million-enrollees

Grand Total as of March 26, 2014: (12.4 M - 16.0 M)

Enrollment Period Elapsed: 96.7% â¢ Est. % of CBO QHP Projection: 84.9% (or 99.0%)

Exchange-Based QHP Projection: Total: 6.52M

http://acasignups.net/

gwb-trading · Mar 27, 2014

The ObamaCare Numbers Racket
Obama delays enrollment deadline - hides data to inflate enrollment
http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...adline-hides-data-to-inflation-enrollment.htm

Two more signs that all is not well in ObamaCare land: The administration has pushed back the enrollment deadline while refusing to say how many have actually paid their ObamaCare premiums.

ObamaCare has become like that old quip of Mark Twain's about the weather in New England. If you don't like it, wait a few days and it will change.

Less than two weeks ago, the administration was emphatic that there would be no delay of the March 31 enrollment deadline for ObamaCare. In fact, the spokesman for the agency in charge of ObamaCare said, "We don't actually have the statutory authority to extend the open enrollment period in 2014."

The next day, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was asked point-blank at a congressional hearing if she was going to delay the deadline. "No, sir," was her response.

The reason ObamaCare imposes a limited open enrollment period in the first place is to prevent people from gaming the system â buying insurance only after they get sick. So extending the deadline would just encourage abuse.

Nevertheless, this week Obama officials suddenly changed their minds. They claim the two-week delay will just provide leeway to those who started the ObamaCare enrollment process but couldn't finish it in time.

Unlikely. The White House has claimed since early December that all the HealthCare.gov glitches were fixed and that it could handle mass volumes.

Plus, anyone who wants to can take advantage of the extension. All a person has to do is check a box saying he or she tried to enroll before the deadline. Federal officials won't try to figure out who is, or isn't, telling the truth.

No, the real reason for the deadline delay is that Obama is desperate to get lagging enrollment numbers as high as he can, any way he can.

It's the same reason the administration refuses to produce data on how many ObamaCare "enrollees" have actually paid their premiums: HHS officials insist they just don't have that information.

(More at above url)

Ricter · Mar 27, 2014

We've come a long way in a short time, since the Obamacare website rollout "see, it won't work, told you so!!" days.

gwb-trading · Mar 27, 2014

Ricter said:
We've come a long way in a short time, since the Obamacare website rollout "see, it won't work, told you so!!" days.

You do realize that the entire backend of the Obamacare website still does not work.

Insurance companies need to manually bill the U.S. government to get their subsidies. The government must still manually send sign-ups to the insurance companies. The billing transfer functions are non-existent, and there is no data integrity checking.

All they managed to do is allow people to enter their data in the ACA website and store it in a database. The volume of transactions they have supported are less than Amazon transacts in a single week.

jem · Mar 27, 2014

you mean... how could they spend 600 million dollars with Michelle Obama's friends company and not have a working website an elance contract coder could have put together in a few weeks.

Ricter said:
We've come a long way in a short time, since the Obamacare website rollout "see, it won't work, told you so!!" days.

gwb-trading · Mar 27, 2014

jem said:
you mean... how could they spend 600 million dollars with Michelle Obama's friends company and not have a working website an elance contract coder could have put together in a few weeks.

Yes, exactly! In fact there are multiple examples of alternate websites on the internet that take in your data and provide pricing for the Obamacare plans for your state - all were put together in under two weeks.

exGOPer · Mar 27, 2014

Keep the spin going, Romney landslide will happen eventually.

"It's the same reason the administration refuses to produce data on how many ObamaCare "enrollees" have actually paid their premiums:"

Concern trolling at it's worst.

But but but what about the OTHER number.

DHOHHI · Mar 27, 2014

exGOPer said:
Six million Americans have signed up for private health coverage under Obamacare, multiple administration officials confirmed to TPM.

The latest enrollment milestone was first reported by ThinkProgress. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius then announced the news.

The news comes several days before Obamacare's open enrollment (mostly) closes on March 31.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obamacare-6-million-enrollees

Grand Total as of March 26, 2014: (12.4 M - 16.0 M)

Enrollment Period Elapsed: 96.7% â¢ Est. % of CBO QHP Projection: 84.9% (or 99.0%)

Exchange-Based QHP Projection: Total: 6.52M

http://acasignups.net/

Per McKinsey 27% are first time insured .. and half of those have not paid premiums. So it would appear that 800K are people with health insurance for the first time. Out of 40+ million. Laughable.

Ricter · Mar 28, 2014

gwb-trading said:
You do realize that the entire backend of the Obamacare website still does not work.

Insurance companies need to manually bill the U.S. government to get their subsidies. The government must still manually send sign-ups to the insurance companies. The billing transfer functions are non-existent, and there is no data integrity checking.

All they managed to do is allow people to enter their data in the ACA website and store it in a database. The volume of transactions they have supported are less than Amazon transacts in a single week.

I have little doubt you're right. But 90 days ago the frontend wasn't working.

gwb-trading · Mar 28, 2014

Ricter said:
I have little doubt you're right. But 90 days ago the frontend wasn't working.

And as noted in articles, it was fixed by 15 competent independent contractors who were brought in. It took them 6 weeks to do it.

But then the government made the foolish decision to not let them continue their work to fix the backend when the "major government contracting firms" protested - saying 'crisis' was over.

Well the crisis is now back - the backend manual processes are very expensive for insurance companies (and the government) when it all has to be done by hand on printed paper.