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It's offical Obamacare enrollment is low.

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Today the white house relase the enrollment numbers for the ACA and that number 106,000 out of a country of 320 million people. Obamacare can only work if it was high enrollment.

October Obamacare enrollment low - Kyle Cheney and Jason Millman - POLITICO.com

Hello fellow Washingtonian. More accurately, 106,000 out of around 15 millionish (which I think is the targeted pool of uninsured/those insured with "inadequate" plans). Still laughably low, but I think we all expected that. Unsustainable if the numbers don't work out.
 
Today the white house relase the enrollment numbers for the ACA and that number 106,000 out of a country of 320 million people. Obamacare can only work if it was high enrollment.

October Obamacare enrollment low - Kyle Cheney and Jason Millman - POLITICO.com

considering that the administration could not deploy a major public campaign urging uninsured people to enroll for coverage, and that obamacare was not marketed heavily in the 36 states where the federal government is operating the exchanges, enrollment is probably down to all the bad press of the roll out.
 
Today the white house relase the enrollment numbers for the ACA and that number 106,000 out of a country of 320 million people. Obamacare can only work if it was high enrollment.

October Obamacare enrollment low - Kyle Cheney and Jason Millman - POLITICO.com
No worries, it will go higher when people have to choose it or paying a fine.
The people whose Insurance drops them will have no choice (of Insurance, they may still choose to
pay the fine instead of buying insurance.)
 
Today the white house relase the enrollment numbers for the ACA and that number 106,000 out of a country of 320 million people. Obamacare can only work if it was high enrollment.

October Obamacare enrollment low - Kyle Cheney and Jason Millman - POLITICO.com

These numbers include people that chose a plan, but have not PAID. How can person be counted as enrolled, if they haven't paid?

I would like to know the number of people that actually paid for their insurance, because if people haven't paid they don't have insurance and are therefore not enrolled in anything.
 
These numbers include people that chose a plan, but have not PAID. How can person be counted as enrolled, if they haven't paid?

I would like to know the number of people that actually paid for their insurance, because if people haven't paid they don't have insurance and are therefore not enrolled in anything.

they count as having signed up for insurance overall.
 
No worries, it will go higher when people have to choose it or paying a fine.
The people whose Insurance drops them will have no choice (of Insurance, they may still choose to
pay the fine instead of buying insurance.)

A young healthy person will face the choice of paying hundreds of dollars in insurance premiums that they may feel they don't need, or pay the $95.00 fine to the IRS. Which would you do; hundreds of dollars for a product you may not need or the $95.00 fine (oh, I mean tax)?
 
While I may have selected a new BMW as my dream car, that does not mean that I will ever actually buy/lease one. ;)

Sort of like reporting the number of registered voters and expecting them all to be actual voters.

It would be interesting to know how many of them will depend on tax subsidies and the average annual cost of those subsidies per "enrollee". ;)
 
A young healthy person will face the choice of paying hundreds of dollars in insurance premiums that they may feel they don't need, or pay the $95.00 fine to the IRS. Which would you do; hundreds of dollars for a product you may not need or the $95.00 fine (oh, I mean tax)?
The Government views the choice as a win - win, ether way some money is coming in.
If enough young people make the fine choice, the fine will increase.
 
they count as having signed up for insurance overall.

I don't see how. If I click buy on eBay, but don't actually pay, I don't own what I supposedly bought.

The same goes for anything else in the world. If I go to the clothing store, pick a pair of pants off of the shelf but don't pay for them, I can't leave with them because they're not mine.

The purpose of the law was to make people have insurance. If they don't pay, they do not have insurance, and shouldn't be counted.
 
they count as having signed up for insurance overall.

when I put an item in my cart at amazon do they count it as a sale? hell I've had some items in my amazon cart for over a year doesn't mean im going to buy it? it just means I have set it aside incase I do decide to
 
The Government views the choice as a win - win, ether way some money is coming in.
If enough young people make the fine choice, the fine will increase.

I'd like to know exactly how paying the fine to the federal government is going to lower health care costs?

If young healthy people don't actually sign up and pay for the insurance, the PPACA will collapse under its own weight, and those of us that have insurance will even more money for that insurance than we already do (my premium and co-pay has gone up over 50% already). I do not look forward to seeing what my premium and co-pay will be a few years from now.

What happened to the promise that our personal medical costs would all go down by an average of $2,500.00 a year?
 
Hello fellow Washingtonian. More accurately, 106,000 out of around 15 millionish (which I think is the targeted pool of uninsured/those insured with "inadequate" plans). Still laughably low, but I think we all expected that. Unsustainable if the numbers don't work out.

There are more than 15 million young people that don't need nor want insurance.
 
I don't see how. If I click buy on eBay, but don't actually pay, I don't own what I supposedly bought.

The same goes for anything else in the world. If I go to the clothing store, pick a pair of pants off of the shelf but don't pay for them, I can't leave with them because they're not mine.

The purpose of the law was to make people have insurance. If they don't pay, they do not have insurance, and shouldn't be counted.

when you have an item in a cart it just means you have selected an item and haven't arranged payment and hit the finale accept to purchase said item. I have items in carts all over the internet doesn't mean I plan to buy any of them I do it incase I do decide and it is there for me to arrange payment and hit accept to have the item shipped
 
Hello fellow Washingtonian. More accurately, 106,000 out of around 15 millionish (which I think is the targeted pool of uninsured/those insured with "inadequate" plans). Still laughably low, but I think we all expected that. Unsustainable if the numbers don't work out.

The figures being thrown around in the Obamacare debate approach 40+ million (uninsured alone). If 15 million were the number we wouldn't have needed Obamacare in the first place.
 
when you have an item in a cart it just means you have selected an item and haven't arranged payment and hit the finale accept to purchase said item. I have items in carts all over the internet doesn't mean I plan to buy any of them I do it incase I do decide and it is there for me to arrange payment and hit accept to have the item shipped

Exactly. At least someone else understands this.
 
The figures being thrown around in the Obamacare debate approach 40+ million (uninsured alone). If 15 million were the number we wouldn't have needed Obamacare in the first place.

There is a difference between the number of uninsured people and the number of policies required to cover them - think family. ;)
 
it isn't below 50,000---it is 106,185 people who have signed up for ACA during October---here we are on Day 43 and things are getting better every day with ACA and all the Republicans have is the Dems greatest weapon---Darrel Issa and his kangaroo court
 
Whatever. Should it have been the biggest issue for a sitting president? When we are flooded with other more pressing issues for our country?
 
There are more than 15 million young people that don't need nor want insurance.

Romney said they shouldn't be able to scofflaw on insurance their whole lives and then jump in at age 45..
And he wrote the damned law..
 
The figures being thrown around in the Obamacare debate approach 40+ million (uninsured alone). If 15 million were the number we wouldn't have needed Obamacare in the first place.

That's what I keep thinking every time I hear the latest spin doctors trying to defend the law!!!

Lately all I hear are low numbers of people needing insurance being thrown around by the defenders of the law, and I ask "Well then why did we need the law in the first place, if such a small and in their words, 'insignificant' number of people need insurance in the first place?"
 
it isn't below 50,000---it is 106,185 people who have signed up for ACA during October---here we are on Day 43 and things are getting better every day with ACA and all the Republicans have is the Dems greatest weapon---Darrel Issa and his kangaroo court

no it doesn't all it means is some of those 106,000 have put a plan in a cart it doesn't mean they have any intention to actually arrange payment and buy the plan
I have probably over 5,000 dollars of items siting in carts all over the intent from amazon to tiger direct to newegg do I plan to buy those items probably not they are there incase I do decide so all I have to do is make arrangements to pay and ship and hit the finale accept
that figure of 106,000 is a sham
 
The figures being thrown around in the Obamacare debate approach 40+ million (uninsured alone). If 15 million were the number we wouldn't have needed Obamacare in the first place.

Perhaps you're right. Maybe I'm thinking of the number of healthy people they need enrolled?
 
Closing in on 400,000--:shock:-- folks now signed up for Medicare and one million who have made it through the websit!!?
And what do Republikans have..Medi--sKare, if I kan borrow that k letter from zimmer..
Go Red Kentucky, keep showing us the way..Day 43..
 
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