W.TN.Orange Blood
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Wrong.. some on here act like every idea the GOP has is brilliant and every Dem idea is bad. Just showing some FACTS. It is beyond me how intelligent people are so color blind when politics are involed. The truth is both sides have a few good ideas and a bunch of bad ones. Both sides are hypocritical liars.
You mean like that the enrollment has exploded in recent weeks and is growing proportionally at a much higher pace than Romney care did, and further that at the current pace it will easily meet the projected numbers? Or, do you mean that the fantasy of it failing is so clung to by the GOP that they'll pronounce it has failed, even well before the facts are in?
If so, you are dead on.
and further that at the current pace it will easily meet the projected numbers
But the enrollment numbers -- a combined 364,682 -- are still well off what they need to be to hit the Obama administration's target of 7 million enrollees in private coverage through the exchanges before open enrollment ends at the end of March, several health policy experts told MedPage Today.
ACA Enrollment Rising, but Not Fast Enough
Throw in the over 5 million who lost their plans and I'll still contend that come Jan 1 the number of insured is down rather than up. The number of paying insured (excluding new Medicaid) will be substantially down and it's unlikely that 7 million new people will sign up for insurance through the exchanges by March.
Mrs. Sebelius wrote that those with canceled plans who are having trouble paying for a new plan will be eligible for the hardship exemption. "As a result, in addition to their existing options these individuals will also be able to buy a catastrophic plan," she said.
People who buy catastrophic coverage under the broadened hardship exemption will be exempt from the penalty imposed on many Americans who do not have coverage starting in 2014.
It wasn't immediately clear how many people might be able to take advantage of the new option. The administration said Thursday that it believed that fewer than 500,000 people whose existing coverage had been terminated hadn't yet enrolled in another plan. The letter from Mrs. Sebelius didn't set out what people would have to do to show they qualified for the exemption because their policies had been canceled, or whether people who had already selected other plans could change their minds now.
But when it came to the universally panned roll out of his health care law, Obama conceded that "we screwed it up," and said, "I'm going to be making appropriate adjustments once we get through this year." It was unclear if he meant to signal high-level personnel changes.
Anticipating high demand and the fact that consumers may be enrolling from multiple time zones, we have taken steps to make sure that those who select a plan through tomorrow will get coverage for Jan. 1