With the latest ObamaCare enrollment ‘deadline’ upon us the government is reporting an estimate that there are 6 million people enrolled, ‘just a million’ shy of the administration’s goal to have 7 million people enrolled by March 31st. But what do those numbers even mean? Somehow the government has no data to show how many have paid their premiums or how many of those enrolled previously had no insurance.
Republican Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) said on Sunday that the lack of details about ObamaCare enrollment numbers suggests the Obama administration has “cooked the books.”
[Barrasso] made his comments just hours before the Monday deadline to enroll in the Affordable Care Act and was skeptical of the administration’s most recent enrollment figure of more than 6 million Americans.“I don’t think it means anything,” he told “Fox News Sunday.” “They are cooking the books on this.”
Though the enrollment number now appears just a million shy of the administration’s goal of 7 million by the March 31 deadline, Barrasso said Americans who have switched to ObamaCare from insurance deemed sub-standard under the Affordable Care Act still don’t know whether they can keep their same doctors. And they don’t know whether their premiums will indeed be more affordable.
Among the other questions are whether enough younger people have enrolled in ObamaCare to cover the health care costs of older Americans in the program and how many of those enrolled previously were uninsured.
UPDATE: According to The New York Times, at least 20% of those enrollments the government is counting never paid their premiums to activate coverage, leaving them uninsured. In fact, as Washington Post columnist Ed Rogers notes, “the official HHS numbers still include duplicate enrollments.” No one knows how many duplicate enrollments are in the stack; the White House refuses to say. However, given the disastrous Obamacare website failures, it is reasonable to imagine that the pile is riddled with numerous “false start” applications.
Actual enrollment numbers appear to be approximately 1.7% of those 48.6 million uninsured.
Sources: FoxNews, The New York Times, Breitbart
Photo: FoxNews
Proud of a 1.7% coverage of previously uninsured citizens Chevai Harris ??
You know dam well those are not accurate if you add the children under 26 the Medicaid expansion and raw exchange numbers
The sad part is there is actually a group of you who don’t want people to have coverage and most of those uninsured people red states I wonder why
Pretty sure all people are asking for at this stage are accurate numbers. How many billions more would it cost to add basic math features to ObamaCare so the administration could actually report those instead of hiding the magnitude of the failure?
You know all to well the numbers will be released soon and pretty sure some will be some will be bad this is a great law that needs some work and time like all others but as a country we should trying help better each other not the other way around
People will KNOW whatever the Media propaganda machine tells them.
It’s actually 14%, and that number would be higher but states like Texas, the state I live in ,chose to not expand healthcare, primarily for older people and veterans, republicans can’t do math and are letting the poor suffer just to try and make Obama look bad, that’s what the people will remember this coming November.
We’re eager to update the story with more accurate numbers Manuel Villarreal. The lack of accurate, transparent, and timely statistics is exactly what Sen. Barrasso in the article was concerned with!
6 million out of 300 million…….well duh…….did not cook the books….burned beyond control….Obutthocare is not about your health, it is about control…….Right now the government controls your life, and your bank account…….
HELL NO WE DON’T KNOW. HOW ARE WE GOING TO TRUST LAIRS ANYWAY.