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By: Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Posted December 29, 2013
As we continue our open enrollment campaign, we experienced a welcome surge in enrollment as millions of Americans seek access to affordable health care coverage through new Health Insurance Marketplaces nationwide. More than 1.1 million people enrolled in a qualified health plan via the Federally-facilitated Marketplace from October 1 to December 24, with more than 975,000 of those enrolling this month alone. Our HealthCare.gov enrollment nearly doubled in the days before the January 1 coverage deadline compared to the first few weeks of the month
whyamIhere
I heard it on Fox News that only 10-15% have actually paid.
Not sure if it is correct, but it sounds about right with the prices.
The lower-than-hoped-for enrollment numbers on the federal exchanges are due to Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D., D.C.) argued on Monday. Norton blamed a “negative propaganda campaign” by Republicans that confused Americans into thinking that the law was no longer in effect.
“There are millions of people out there who think it was repealed, so there was no way to break through that very easily,” she told MSNBC. Norton also pointed out that the “debacle of a website” made matters worse because it “seemed to confirm that [the law] must have been repealed, or should have been repealed.”
5 million lost coverage due to Obamacare.
Care to back up that claim with a source?
DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by elouina
5 million lost coverage due to Obamacare.
That's more Republican wishful thinking and willful misunderstanding, bordering on lying.
Care to back up that claim with a source?edit on 12/31/2013 by DrEugeneFixer because: (no reason given)
DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by elouina
5 million lost coverage due to Obamacare.
That's more Republican wishful thinking and willful misunderstanding, bordering on lying.
Care to back up that claim with a source?edit on 12/31/2013 by DrEugeneFixer because: (no reason given)
DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by elouina
5 million lost coverage due to Obamacare.
That's more Republican wishful thinking and willful misunderstanding, bordering on lying.
Care to back up that claim with a source?edit on 12/31/2013 by DrEugeneFixer because: (no reason given)
Obamacare includes a list of 10 “essential benefits” that health plans must cover—including coverage of maternity services, habilitative services, and pediatric vision care.
The law also requires that most health plans cover at least 60 percent of expected medical expenses. A study last year suggested that more than half of individual market insurance policies do not meet these so-called actuarial value requirements.
Because they do not comply with the law’s new required benefits, one expert has concluded that as many as 85 percent of individual health insurance policies—affecting up to 16 million individuals—will be cancelled due to Obamacare.
Obamacare’s effects will not be felt only in the individual market. The Administration’s own regulations assumed that up to 69 percent of small business plans—covering as many as 41 million Americans—could be lost, because they do not comply with Obamacare’s requirements.
More than 4.2 million Americans have now seen their health insurance policies canceled due to the new regulations.
"Your 4.2 million number is an interesting one. That's what the count is up to. It's going to get much higher than that. We're going to have these cancelations going into 2014," said Laszewski, predicting that ultimately, 80 percent of people in the individual market will lose their policy due to ObamaCare regulations.
He explained that the "grandfather" provisions written into ObamaCare are "so stringent that very, very few [individual] health insurance policies are going to survive."
DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by elouina
5 million lost coverage due to Obamacare.
That's more Republican wishful thinking and willful misunderstanding, bordering on lying.
Care to back up that claim with a source?edit on 12/31/2013 by DrEugeneFixer because: (no reason given)
Ameilia
The 5 million comes from the source linked in the OP and is called "a conservative estimate" meaning, the number is likely to be bigger.
DrEugeneFixer
Ameilia
The 5 million comes from the source linked in the OP and is called "a conservative estimate" meaning, the number is likely to be bigger.
Oh right, you guys think an unsourced claim on a website called Tea Party News Network is a valid source. Nevermind
From “That Health Care Law, By the Numbers,” by the Associated Press’s Calvin Woodward
“4 million-plus: People whose individual plans were canceled because the plans didn’t measure up under the law [ObamaCare]. The government changed rules to allow substandard plans to exist for another year; it’s not known how many canceled policies will be revived. Another rules change allowed cancellation victims to sign up for bare-bones catastrophic coverage.
These 16 million people are now receiving letters from their carriers saying they are losing their current coverage and must re-enroll in order to avoid a break in coverage and comply with the new health law's benefit mandates––the vast majority by January 1. Most of these will be seeing some pretty big rate increases.
DrEugeneFixer
Ameilia
The 5 million comes from the source linked in the OP and is called "a conservative estimate" meaning, the number is likely to be bigger.
Oh right, you guys think an unsourced claim on a website called Tea Party News Network is a valid source. Nevermind
Six million Americans with private insurance have just lost it. And that’s just the beginning. By the Department of Health and Human Services’ own estimates, about 75 million Americans would have plans that their employers would have the right to cancel. And millions of middle-class workers who will migrate to the exchanges and don’t qualify for government subsidies will see their premiums, deductibles and co-pays go up.
"So far, at least 4.8 million Americans have received insurance cancellations notices, but Laszewski predicts that the total Obamacare enrollment will be less than half that number on January 1.
John cites the Federal Register, dated June 17, 2010, beginning at page 34,552 (Vol. 75, No. 116). It includes a chart that outlines the Obama administration’s projections. The chart indicates that somewhere between 39 and 69 percent of employer plans would lose their “grandfather” protection by 2013. In fact, for small-business employers, the high-end estimate is a staggering 80 percent (and even on the low end, it’s just a shade under half — 49 percent).