Here\u2019s an example. The Administration recently noted that ObamaCare \u201cexceeded expectations\u201d by getting it\u2019s 8-millionth person signed up \u2013 when its enrollee target was 7 million. This was touted to the press as a \u201cvictory\u201d \u2013 and proof of how well ObamaCare is \u201cworking\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, \u201cground truth\u201d is a bit different.<\/p>\n
At the time of the announcement, somewhere between 15% and 20% of signups hadn\u2019t yet paid their first insurance premium. Until they do, they\u2019re not yet an \u201cenrollee\u201d \u2013 because they don\u2019t have any insurance until they\u2019ve paid that first premium. A fair number likely never will pay up.<\/p>\n
That means the actual number of ObamaCare enrollees was actually somewhere between 6.4 and 6.8 million \u2013 not the 8 million the Administration touted.<\/p>\n
A more detailed examination yields some other rather damning information.\u00a0 At its beginning in 2009, 38 million people were estimated to be eligible for ObamaCare but uninsured. By this point in time CBO had estimated 19 million would be newly covered; CMS had estimated 26 million would be newly insured. So, how many who previously had no health insurance actually are now insured?<\/p>\n
The answer is somewhere between 3.4 and 3.6 million<\/em>. That\u2019s a bit over 15% of the number of previously-uninsured people that CMS estimated would be covered by ObamaCare by this point in time.<\/p>\n Why so low? Two reasons.<\/p>\n First: far fewer signed up under ObamaCare than CMS (or CBO) had anticipated would have signed up by now. And second: because about half of the ObamaCare signups previously had insurance, but lost their insurance because it \u201cdidn\u2019t qualify\u201d under new ObamaCare mandates \u2013\u00a0<\/em>regardless of whether or not it previously met their needs.<\/p>\n
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