Health-care exchange sign-ups fall far short of forecasts...AGAIN!

The massive failure of Obamacare is such a regular occurance, it's hardly news an longer.

Health-care exchange sign-ups fall far short of forecasts

By Carolyn Y. Johnson August 27 at 8:10 PM
Enrollment in the insurance exchanges for President Obama’s signature health-care law is at less than half the initial forecast, pushing several major insurance companies to stop offering health plans in certain markets because of significant financial losses.

As a result, the administration’s promise of a menu of health-plan choices has been replaced by a grim, though preliminary, forecast: Next year, more than 1 in 4 counties are at risk of having a single insurer on its exchange, said Cynthia Cox, who studies health reform for the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Debate over how perilous the predicament is for the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, is nearly as partisan as the divide over the law itself. But at the root of the problem is this: The success of the law depends fundamentally on the exchanges being profitable for insurers — and that requires more people to sign up.

In February 2013, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that 24 million people would buy health coverage through the federally and state-operated online exchanges by this year. Just 11.1 million people were signed up as of late March.

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Well... medicaid and massive subsidies are way up... so we've got that going for us.

Pay attention folks......when Hillary's plan of lowering Medicare eligibility begins, sick people will be taken out of the ACA insurance pools and rates will drop and profitability will be obscene, even in the supplemental markets.....pay attention.....do your really think the world stops?

Separate govt run healthcare from the private system and the savings will be instantaneous.

What does the government run...efficiently and better than private industry?

2seaoat wrote:Pay attention folks......when Hillary's plan of lowering Medicare eligibility begins, sick people will be taken out of the ACA insurance pools and rates will drop and profitability will be obscene, even in the supplemental markets.....pay attention.....do your really think the world stops?

Who pays?

Simple.....return tax rates where the top 1% is paying what they did before Reagan ran up our debt. Done. Cut Defense spending by 25%. Done Invest in private sector infrastructure projects while cutting by 25% the criminal justice budget over the next 25 years.......done


Any other questions.

Yes... why do we continue to entitle healthy citizens to get somethin fer nothin? Why don't you cut that spending?

Six years after the ACA took effect, it has, perhaps more than any law passed in the previous five decades, narrowed income inequality, saved lives, and reduced financial anxiety.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/21/obamacare-unheralded-success/montTA45UvggSgwA0Myd8K/story.html

You see you folks like the trend of 90% of the American Productivity increases going to 1% of Americans, and the thought of that 1% paying more taxes is repulsive to you........not because you belong to the 1%, but because of a deep seated agreement with the Dixiecrats basic premise.....some humans in America should not get subsidy........rather coal, gas, oil, military, and the wealthy are the only ones entitled to those gains in productivity.......the polls and Americans are about to tell you something quite different than your Dixiecrat paradigm of blowing up government and giving no legitimacy to government. As I have said repeatedly, I have only heard good things from people who do not have to worry about preexisting conditions and are now free to work independent of the chains of health insurance availability.....Hillary's plan is a winner.....collect more revenue, and expand Medicare. Then those Dixiecrat States who attempted to deny poor and sick people coverage will be out of the equation.......A budget is setting priorities....your priorities are for the status quo....which has been the stealing of America.....most Americans politely disagree, and will vote for policies and budgets which work for Americans.

2seaoat wrote:Simple.....return tax rates where the top 1% is paying what they did before Reagan ran up our debt.   Done.  Cut Defense spending by 25%.   Done  Invest in private sector infrastructure projects while cutting by 25% the criminal justice budget over the next 25 years.......done

Any other questions.

BoardsofFL, when you something real, come back.