The administration won't say how many have successfully enrolled in Obamacare - in other words registered and purchased a plan.
I have heard they need at least 7 million people in order to make the plan work at all, and preferably many more.
The lack of information invites speculation, and this guy says there are only about 5000 actual purchasers so far.
"Based upon my survey of a large number of health plans accounting for substantial market share in the 36 states the federal insurance exchange is operating in, not more than about 5,000 individuals and families signed-up for health insurance in the 36 states run by the Obama administration through Monday.
"It is not uncommon for a major health insurer with a large market share to report less than 100 enrollments in the first week.
Reports today say the enrollments continue to trickle in at about the same rate.
Worse, the backroom connection between the insurance companies and the federal government is a disaster. Things are worse behind the curtain than in front of it.
Here is one example from a carrier--and I have received numerous reports from many other carriers with exactly the same problem. One carrier exec told me that yesterday they got 7 transactions for 1 person - 4 enrollments and 3 cancelations.
For some reason the system is enrolling, unenrolling, enrolling again, and so forth the same person. This has been going on for a few days for many of the enrollments being sent to the health plans. It has got on to the point that the health plans worry some of these very few enrollments really don't exist.
The reconciliation system, that reconciles enrollment between the feds and the health plans, is not working and hasn't even been tested yet."
We might be tempted to cheer the failure of the rollout of this latest progressive abomination, but the nearly instant collapse of this socialist pipe dream leaves many questions about what can or should come next.
Given the gridlock, frustration and intemperate insults flying in Congress, I doubt a solution can be had there, and even if there was, would the "I won't negotiate" president sign? I don't think a solution can be expected from that quarter until at least the 2014 elections.
In the meantime, perhaps the idea of delaying the implementation of Obamacare for a year isn't such a bad idea.
They need 7 million YOUNG HEALTHY PEOPLE who don't need healthcare paying high premiums into the system to balance the uninsurable people that will inevitably sign up. Or the system goes BK.
ReplyDeleteI expect that there will be a large number of really sick people with pre-existing conditions lining up. It's the healthy ones that Obama really needs.