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You're absolutely right. What they are saying is, at best, misleading because, as you said, you have to register to even browse plans or find out if you qualify for subsidies. As far as those signing up in other states and those signing up belonging to Medicaid, I'd say two things. 1) The Medicaid expansion is part of Obamacare. 2) if people are receiving coverage who previously did not, this should be celebrated, regardless of your political affiliation.What you are saying here to Bman is correct, however, maybe you can address something for me....In the roll out this past month, as well as the numbers we see coming out on enrollment, there is a real purposely misleading component to what is being put out here....
1. the administration is saying that they have over 700k "applications" over and over, and we know that you must fill out an application to have even have the ability to compare policies, and even when they knew that little trick wasn't going to work, and put in a button to see the policies they are still not even close to what a final cost may be for shoppers.
2. the next mis truth they are telling, or to be fair not explaining, is that of those that they are touting as 'signed up' especially in states like KY where the democrat governor went along with the plan and started their own exchange, is that roughly 85% or better of those signed up are on Medicaid, not purchasing anything...That is misleading at best.
If Obama, and demo's want to get this to work, they are going to have to be a lot more honest than that...I don't know if they can be.
I agree with you, what's coming out regarding the "successes" is/can be misleading. But it's just part of the game being played by both sides right now. Republicans are using obscure examples of some random person who claims to have been negatively affected and from this are claiming Obamacare is a failure. Democrats are taking those who registered an account and pointing to the high numbers and are claiming success. At the end of the day, both sides are playing the political game because NEITHER party is making a claim which challenges the truth. And the truth is that it doesn't matter how many have signed up or not signed up, everyone WILL have to have coverage or pay the fine/tax.
That's just the simple fact. You'll either have coverage or you'll pay the fine/tax. Both parties spinning their made up successes and failures are largely irrelevant and is little more than political posturing.