high medicaid enrolment HURTS the obamacare stategy

CBS News has confirmed that in Washington, of the more than 35,000 people newly enrolled, 87 percent signed up for Medicaid. In Kentucky, out of 26,000 new enrollments, 82 percent are in Medicaid. And in New York, of 37,000 enrollments, Medicaid accounts for 64 percent. And there are similar stories across the country in nearly half of the states that run their own exchanges.


But Gail Wilensky, a former Medicaid director, said the numbers are causing concern in the insurance industry, which needs healthy adults to buy private insurance in large numbers for the system to work

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicaid-enrollment-spike-a-threat-to-obamacare-structure/

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Wrong wrong wrong.....the Medicaid expansion was a critical component of the end goal of getting Americans covered.......and it will take years of penalty to increase the private insurance enrollments......how fricking stupid is it to assume everyone will sign up without the designed penalties changing people's choices.....five years from now tell me about the private insurance failure.......first inning.......please let the game develop before declaring the game won or lost.

2seaoat wrote:Wrong wrong wrong.....the Medicaid expansion was a critical component of the end goal of getting Americans covered.......and it will take years of penalty to increase the private insurance enrollments......how fricking stupid is it to assume everyone will sign up without the designed penalties changing people's choices.....five years from now tell me about the private insurance failure.......first inning.......please let the game develop before declaring the game won or lost.

Wrong! whew weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee LMAO!

Now you think you know more about it than a FORMER MEDICAID DIRECTOR? lololololololololololol

what part do you not understand? they need young healthy people millions of them to sign up for actual PRIVATE ins plans , you know the ones you PAY FOR, in order for this to work.

  

They cant even get the Medicaid portion right

The start of Medicaid coverage for low-income people ought to be a bright spot next week. Far more people are in line for Medicaid than private coverage right now, since it’s so much easier to sign up.

There’s just one problem: The applications got clogged up. The federal website — yes, that one again — has had trouble sending the files to the states, which have to do the final processing before people can get their coverage.

The administration has tried to fix that problem by letting those 36 states use files with just basic information — called “flat files” — to finish the Medicaid enrollments faster. But that decision basically dumps the problem in the laps of the states, since they have to decide whether to accept people without all the information to determine whether they’re really eligible.

Ten states are now getting the complete files, but that means 26 states have to decide whether to use the incomplete files and take the risk of some ineligible people getting through.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/obamacare-new-year-101456_Page2.html#ixzz2ogL51WDA

2seaoat wrote:Wrong wrong wrong.....the Medicaid expansion was a critical component of the end goal of getting Americans covered.......and it will take years of penalty to increase the private insurance enrollments......how fricking stupid is it to assume everyone will sign up without the designed penalties changing people's choices.....five years from now tell me about the private insurance failure.......first inning.......please let the game develop before declaring the game won or lost.

You're really getting desperate.  Grudgingly you're finally starting to accept how fricking stupid, and totally unaffordable is ObamaCare.


How many Billions do you think tax payers will tolerate bailing out the insurance companies?

How many years will tax payers tolerate bailing them out?