Ocen Nekyon
What I posted did not require too much thinking to bother you sir, it was based
solely on numbers that I or you do not have powers to control. It is not a
Republican issue and it is not a Democrat issue this is totally limited to
numbers that are public. Kindly limit your response to the very same.
And just before I go, Ocen what Americans are you identifying today as the Red
Neck idiots? Kindly extrapolate.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
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To: Herrn Edward Mulindwa
Subject: Re: {UAH} Obamacare Sign-Ups Reach 6.4 Million
EM:
Whenever you join a discussion the quality of debate goes down by a least 60%
for the simple reason you are totally ignorant of the subject matter at hand.
Case in point; out of the 319 Million of the total US population, only 40
Million did not have Medical Insurance prior to Obamacare.
After the first year of introduction 10 Million of the 40 Million were covered
which is about 25%- that is success by any measuring metric out there.
Coverage would have been a lot higher if some of your Redneck idiots did not
interfere with it's (Obamacare) implementation.
This is not Rocket Science; but due to your lack of comprehensive skills it
proves how fatal it can be for one not to have a decent education.
Ocen
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Ocen Nekyon
The population of United States by December 23, 2014 is 319,305,000, are you
seriously standing in a public forum to state that Obamacare is a success for
it has so far achieved 6.4 million Americans in sign up? Is that what you are
trying and so hard to deliver here?
Do you at minimum understand the gap between the two numbers? And I am just
asking here.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
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Subject: {UAH} Obamacare Sign-Ups Reach 6.4 Million
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6368228
Obamacare Sign-Ups Reach 6.4 Million
Enrollments via the federally run Obamacare health insurance exchanges on
<https://www.healthcare.gov/> HealthCare.gov surged leading up to a big
deadline last week and
<http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/blog/2014/12/open-enrollment-week-five.html>
reached almost 6.4 million after the first month of sign-ups, the Department
of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday.
That tally, including about 1.9 million new customers and the re-enrollments of
millions more already covered by Obamacare plans, combined with
<http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/227715-obamacare-enrollment-exceeds-1m-in-states>
more than 1 million sign-ups so far through the exchanges operated by 13
states and the District of Columbia, appears to put the program on target to
surpass Burwell’s self-imposed
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/10/obamacare-enrollment_n_6132996.html>
target of 9.1 million total enrollments by the end of next year. The
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/14/obamacare-enrollment-2015_n_6155354.html>
open enrollment period for health insurance policies purchased on these
exchanges for 2015 started Nov. 15 and ends Feb. 15, 2015.
“We still have a ways to go and a lot of work before Feb. 15, but we do have an
encouraging start,” Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell
said at a press conference Tuesday. “This law is working, and families and
businesses and taxpayers are better off as a result.”
Compared to
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/18/obamacare-train-wreck_n_4118041.html>
the chaotic rollout of the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges in October 2013 that
resulted in sluggish sign-ups for the first months of enrollment into 2014
health coverage, the second enrollment period is running remarkably smoothly at
the federal and state level. That’s in spite of
<http://articles.philly.com/2014-11-02/news/56391160_1_joel-ario-former-pennsylvania-insurance-commissioner-consumers>
lingering technical issues and major public outreach and educational
challenges facing exchange authorities and insurance companies seeking to usher
existing customers through a potentially confusing renewal process while
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/obamacare-uninsured-rate-2014-sign-ups_n_5676458.html>
searching for millions of uninsured to sign up.
“A month ago, people were raising questions about whether or not consumers
would actually come to the marketplace,” Burwell said. But the HealthCare.gov
website is working,
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/obamacare-competition_n_5869710.html>
more insurance companies are offering policies compared to last year, and
premium increases are modest on average, she said.
These private health insurance plan enrollments as of Dec. 19 are in addition
to the
<http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/blog/2014/12/medicaid-chip-enrollment-october.html?utm_campaign=121814_hhs_healthcare_blog_medicaid&utm_medium=email&utm_source=hhs_healthcare_blog&utm_content=121814_hhs_healthcare_blog_medicaid_titlelink>
almost 10 million people who have signed up for Medicaid or the Children’s
Health Insurance Program since last October. The Affordable Care Act broadens
Medicaid access in states that elect to participate, but
<http://kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/state-decisions-for-creating-health-insurance-exchanges-and-expanding-medicaid/>
22 states have not done so, leaving
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/31/florida-medicaid-uninsured_n_4680566.html>
millions of low-income Americans uninsured.
Just 106,000 people managed to sign up during the first month of the inaugural
enrollment period, while
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/26/obamacare-enrollment_n_6225024.html>
more than half a million chose policies during the first week of this year’s
campaign.
The improvements at the federal level are mirrored in the states with their own
insurance marketplaces. States with troubled exchanges last time around,
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-calls-revamped-health-care-exchange-a-success/2014/12/19/953b7450-8757-11e4-abcf-5a3d7b3b20b8_story.html>
including Maryland and Massachusetts, have rebounded, and other states still
having technical problems,
<http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/286112781.html> such as Minnesota,
nevertheless are signing up consumers.
<http://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-obamacare-california-enrollment-20141210-story.html>
The exchanges in the populous states of California and
<http://wivb.com/ap/ny-health-exchange-reports-225000-more-enrolled/> New York
performed well during the first enrollment period and continue to enroll large
numbers of residents.
“It definitely looks like it’s going to work," Caroline Pearson, vice president
of the health care reform practice at the consulting firm Avalere Health, said
before the HHS announcement. "All signs are that the markets are working really
effectively. You’ve got an increased insurer participation and very stable
premiums,” she said. The
<http://www.pwc.com/us/en/health-industries/health-research-institute/aca-state-exchanges.jhtml>
average nationwide price increase for next year is 5.4 percent, but there's a
lot of variation and some premiums even went down, according to
PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In addition to the 1.9 million new customers who signed up, about 4.5 million
current customers have re-enrolled for next year. Most of them automatically
were rolled over into their current plans -- or the next closest thing if their
policies have been discontinued -- for 2015.
Significantly, however, more than one-third of existing customers took active
steps to re-enroll, rather than opting to be automatically re-enrolled, Burwell
said. According to the department’s preliminary analysis, a share of current
enrollees in the mid-to-high 30 percent range did so; this was more than
expected based on how people with other types of coverage, including job-based
health benefits, tend to keep the same plans every year rather than comparison
shop, she said.
“In looking at what happens with people in employer-based plans and other
things, I think probably wouldn’t have expected a number that high in terms of
people’s behavior,” Burwell said. This could mean fewer of consumers than
feared will suffer sticker shock next month.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/13/obamacare-prices_n_6149076.html>
Shopping around is crucial to consumers looking to avoid big rate hikes,
especially for the more than 8 in 10 enrollees who receive Obamacare tax
credits. Volatility in health insurance premiums, especially among those plans
used to set the value of the Obamacare subsidies, means more than 70 percent of
people who signed up for these plans could save money by changing to new
policies, according to HHS.
Consumers who are automatically re-enrolled can switch to a cheaper policy for
February if they make a change by Jan. 15, and all enrollees can choose a
different plan for the rest of the year by Feb. 15. But anyone who didn’t
choose a new plan by Dec. 15 will have to keep what they have in January,
unless they opt to go uninsured for the month instead.
Avalere Health expects 4.5 million to 6 million new customers will sign up for
health insurance via the exchanges by Feb. 15 and that
<http://avalere.com/expertise/managed-care/insights/exchange-enrollment-outlook-10.5-million-to-sign-up-by-end-of-2015>
total enrollments will reach 9.5 million to 11 million, including renewed
coverage for current customers. The Congressional Budget Office projected
enrollments <https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45231> would reach 13 million by
the end of 2015.
Despite the positive trends for 2015 enrollment, projections from Avalere, the
Congressional Budget Office and the Department of Health and Human Services are
lower than before the beginning of the first-sign up period, and evaluations of
the exchanges’ performance during the 2015 sign-up phase should consider that,
Pearson said.
“It looks good relative to the expectations or the goals that HHS set for
themselves, but it looks a bit disappointing relative to where we thought we
would be a year ago,” Pearson said. “It has proven harder to do the outreach
and get people to sign up than we expected and it’s been harder to keep people
enrolled.”
Exchange enrollments for 2014
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/obamacare-sign-ups_n_5167080.html>
peaked at more than 8 million, but
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-20/obamacare-s-subscriber-rolls-include-unpublicized-dental-plans.html>
dipped to 6.7 million as of October as a share of customers gave up their
plans, for reasons including not being able to afford the premiums, not valuing
the coverage, gaining employment at companies that offer health benefits or
enrolling into Medicaid because their incomes fell. HHS expects
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/10/obamacare-enrollment_n_6132996.html>
83 percent of the total number of enrollees as of Feb. 15 to still be covered
by exchange plans at the close of 2015.
Pearson expects enrollments to spike again by Jan. 15, as current customers who
didn’t shop around scramble for lower-cost policies for the rest of the year,
and then again when the final deadline arrives on Feb. 15.
This article has been updated with additional information from a news
conference with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and
from a federal report.
To see an estimate of how much your health insurance might cost, use this
calculator from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Obamacare Sign-Ups Reach 6.4 Million
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6368228
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