Only 6 people managed to enroll in an insurance plan on Day 1 of Healthcare.gov
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Re: Only 6 people managed to enroll in an insurance plan on Day 1 of Healthcare.gov
#2I bet the data is still being processed by some of those 500 million lines of code
Re: Only 6 people managed to enroll in an insurance plan on Day 1 of Healthcare.gov
#3> "The first month of the new health law’s rollout reveals an unexpected pattern in several states: a crush of people applying for an expansion of Medicaid and a trickle of sign-ups for private insurance. This early imbalance — in some places nine out of 10 enrollees are in Medicaid — has taken some experts by surprise. The Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid to cover millions of the poorest Americans who couldn’t otherwise afford coverage, envisions a more even split with an expanded, robust private market..."
So you're telling me that more people who are getting free benefits showed up to the party than people who have to pay significant annual premiums? Shocking. I think they need new "experts".
Re: Only 6 people managed to enroll in an insurance plan on Day 1 of Healthcare.gov
#4> "The first month of the new health law’s rollout reveals an unexpected pattern in several states: a crush of people applying for an expansion of Medicaid and a trickle of sign-ups for private insurance. This early imbalance — in some places nine out of 10 enrollees are in Medicaid — has taken some experts by surprise. The Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid to cover millions of the poorest Americans who co…
I think what they are referring to is the impact of the individual mandate. Sure you'd expect people to rush into the free option, but everyone who is uninsured and doesn't qualify for Medicaid will have have to pay a penalty if they don't buy insurance.
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#5So, SNL had it right when they said the site could only handle 6 users at a time
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/27/saturday_n...
Re: Only 6 people managed to enroll in an insurance plan on Day 1 of Healthcare.gov
#6So, SNL had it right when they said the site could only handle 6 users at a time
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/27/saturday_n...
Re: Only 6 people managed to enroll in an insurance plan on Day 1 of Healthcare.gov
#7> "The first month of the new health law’s rollout reveals an unexpected pattern in several states: a crush of people applying for an expansion of Medicaid and a trickle of sign-ups for private insurance. This early imbalance — in some places nine out of 10 enrollees are in Medicaid — has taken some experts by surprise. The Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid to cover millions of the poorest Americans who co…
I think what they are referring to is the impact of the individual mandate. Sure you'd expect people to rush into the free option, but everyone who is uninsured and doesn't qualify for Medicaid will have have to pay a penalty if they don't buy insurance.
Sure, but what's the hurry? If you don't really want to buy insurance but are doing it to avoid the penalty, you might as well wait until the deadline is closer.
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#8For reference, only 123 managed to sign up for Romneycare in the first month. There are clearly large technical issues, but early on it seems that people also do a lot of "let's see how much it'd cost" and sign up later.
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#9Completely separate issue from the technical issues - but how are people expected to find out that they need to do this. I have to assume there's a non-trivial percentage of the population that's not only uninsured but also completely disconnected from news and the internet. Does somebody contact them somehow to get them enrolled?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think what they are referring to is the impact of the individual mandate. Sure you'd expect people to rush into the free option, but everyone who is uninsured and doesn't qualify for Medicaid will have have to pay a penalty if they don't buy insurance.
Sure, but what's the hurry? If you don't really want to buy insurance but are doing it to avoid the penalty, you might as well wait until the deadline is closer.
Definitely. However the concern here is that people ignore the individual mandate's penalty. Precisely nobody wants that, and the hope was that the ease of signing up and looking for insurance via exchanges would provide a carrot or at least a smooth road to go along with the stick of the penalty. Whoopfail.