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Oh My: Fewer Than 50,000 Have Enrolled Through Healthcare.gov So Far
Guy Benson | Nov 12, 2013
This is a disaster, and it explains why the White House insisted on delaying the release of official enrollment statistics for as long as they have. Jay Carney has been warning that the initial figure is going to be "low," even when it's padded by the law's demographically-perilous Medicaid numbers. The only question was how low. The apparent answer: The number of Americans who have managed to sign up for Obamacare through Healthcare.gov over the last month-and-a-half could fit into Yankee Stadium, with seats to spare. The Wall Street Journal reports:
So far, private health plans have received enrollment data for 40,000 to 50,000 users of the federal marketplace, the people familiar with the figures said. The federal marketplace uses an industry-standard format to exchange enrollment information, known as an 834 transmission…In some cases, insurers have reported duplicated 834s and other data-integrity problems, but the people familiar with the matter said they believed these figures reflected an accurate count of enrollments through late last week…The initial federal numbers set for release this week are expected to show enrollment only through the end of October, so the figures are expected to be lower. Efforts to clean up the data and reduce duplications could further cull the formal count.
That last sentence suggests that duplicate applications may actually be inflating this pitiful number. Some additional perspective on how badly the administration is sucking wind, within the context of the government's own coverage benchmarks:
Add in another 50,000 people or so who’ve signed up on the individual state exchanges and you’ve got roughly 100,000 total enrollees through all of October and 10 days of November. The program’s target for October alone was 494,620. And that figure represents what they thought would be a “slow” month, as the public gradually got up to speed on the need to sign up before December 15th. If you’re looking at the bigger picture, they’re aiming for seven million new enrollees by March 31 of next year. They’re 1.4 percent of the way there with roughly 25 percent of the initial enrollment period having already elapsed. They’re in trouble.
Team Obama projected that roughly 500,000 people would have signed up by October 31. We're 12 days into November, and they're only about 20 percent of the way to their goal for last month. Don't forget, millions of people were told they would be able to rely on this site to comply with the individual mandate tax. As of this moment, approximately one hundred times* as many people have been dropped from their current plan (a shattered
Guy Benson | Nov 12, 2013
This is a disaster, and it explains why the White House insisted on delaying the release of official enrollment statistics for as long as they have. Jay Carney has been warning that the initial figure is going to be "low," even when it's padded by the law's demographically-perilous Medicaid numbers. The only question was how low. The apparent answer: The number of Americans who have managed to sign up for Obamacare through Healthcare.gov over the last month-and-a-half could fit into Yankee Stadium, with seats to spare. The Wall Street Journal reports:
So far, private health plans have received enrollment data for 40,000 to 50,000 users of the federal marketplace, the people familiar with the figures said. The federal marketplace uses an industry-standard format to exchange enrollment information, known as an 834 transmission…In some cases, insurers have reported duplicated 834s and other data-integrity problems, but the people familiar with the matter said they believed these figures reflected an accurate count of enrollments through late last week…The initial federal numbers set for release this week are expected to show enrollment only through the end of October, so the figures are expected to be lower. Efforts to clean up the data and reduce duplications could further cull the formal count.
That last sentence suggests that duplicate applications may actually be inflating this pitiful number. Some additional perspective on how badly the administration is sucking wind, within the context of the government's own coverage benchmarks:
Add in another 50,000 people or so who’ve signed up on the individual state exchanges and you’ve got roughly 100,000 total enrollees through all of October and 10 days of November. The program’s target for October alone was 494,620. And that figure represents what they thought would be a “slow” month, as the public gradually got up to speed on the need to sign up before December 15th. If you’re looking at the bigger picture, they’re aiming for seven million new enrollees by March 31 of next year. They’re 1.4 percent of the way there with roughly 25 percent of the initial enrollment period having already elapsed. They’re in trouble.
Team Obama projected that roughly 500,000 people would have signed up by October 31. We're 12 days into November, and they're only about 20 percent of the way to their goal for last month. Don't forget, millions of people were told they would be able to rely on this site to comply with the individual mandate tax. As of this moment, approximately one hundred times* as many people have been dropped from their current plan (a shattered
