Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance

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[h=3]Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance [/h] Apr 8, 2014 The Rand Blog

Using a survey fielded by the RAND American Life Panel, we estimate a net gain of 9.3 million in the number of American adults with health insurance coverage from September 2013 to mid-March 2014.

The survey, drawn from a small but nationally representative sample, indicates that this significant uptick in insurance coverage has come not only from enrollment in the new marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but also from new enrollment in employer coverage and Medicaid.

Put another way, the survey estimates that the share of uninsured American adults has dropped over the measured period from 20.5 percent to 15.8 percent. Among those gaining coverage, most enrolled through employer-sponsored coverage or Medicaid....

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I wish that it were so but why is a processing center in Missouri doing so little work? If so many new people are signed up wouldn't there be a deluge of applications needing processing?

"The main thing is that the Data Entry side does not have hardly any work to do. They're told to sit at their computers and hit the refresh button every ten minutes- no more than every ten minutes. They're monitored to hopefully look for an application. Their goals are set to process two applications per month and some people are not even able to do that," the employee said."

Obamacare Contractor Pays Employees to Spend Their Days Doing Nothing | Washington Free Beacon

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The open enrollment period is over.

Now a person can only buy health insurance on the exchange if they have a "qualifying event".

Life events that may generally qualify consumers for a special enrollment period include: getting married, the birth or adoption of a child, divorce, permanently moving to a new area that offers different health plan options, losing other health coverage due to a job loss, a COBRA plan expiring, a health plan being decertified, an employer dropping coverage or recently becoming a citizen.

Voluntarily quitting health coverage or being terminated for not paying your premiums are not considered qualifying events.

If consumers do not have a special qualifying event, then they will be unable to purchase an ACA-compliant health policy until the next open enrollment period beginning October 1, 2014.

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ObamaCare contractor fires back at accusations

... The British company has come under fire from Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) after news reports from St. Louis's KMOV alleged the firm was paying workers at its Wentzville, Mo., processing facility to essentially sit around.

Serco says between the time HealthCare.gov launched last October and late this April, its workers have processed more than 1 million documents and made 1.4 million outbound calls to ObamaCare applicants.

Hill acknowledged part of the reason why there may have been a lighter workload in the past could be attributed to the slow enrollment start for the Affordable Care Act, but he said the facility's workload spiked in the final enrollment surge.

Hill said Serco expects to be busy when the new enrollment period begins this October and as it starts other projects. He would not elaborate on what those projects are.

Blunt and Alexander wrote the CMS to investigate the allegations Serco employees were being paid to do little work and asked the agency to respond by May 30.

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So all this drama to pass ACA so that 1 million to 1.4 million could get insurance through government exchanges? And the other 8 million were from employer coverage and medicaid? 4 of those exchanges are already bankrupt.

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So all this drama to pass ACA so that 1 million to 1.4 million could get insurance through government exchanges? And the other 8 million were from employer coverage and medicaid? 4 of those exchanges are already bankrupt.
No. You are mistaken your post was about one office serving the state of Missouri.

There are many untruths and exaggerations about the ACA.

OPINION: reality check on the Affordable Care Act | Center for Public Integrity

Even factcheck.org doesn't have the final count:

http://www.factcheck.org/2014/04/obamas-numbers-april-2014-update/

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Which exchanges are bankrupt?

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So all this drama to pass ACA so that 1 million to 1.4 million could get insurance through government exchanges? And the other 8 million were from employer coverage and medicaid?

The goal of the ACA wasn't just to sign everyone up on the exchanges, it was to protect and expand insurance through 3 main systems; reinforcing employer provided insurance, expanding medicaid, and insurance exchanges.

4 of those exchanges are already bankrupt.

Which exchanges are those?

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Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada and Maryland.

$474M for 4 failed Obamacare exchanges - Jennifer Haberkorn and Kyle Cheney - POLITICO.com

No. You are mistaken your post was about one office serving the state of Missouri.

A company named Serco was awarded the contract to process applications. The center in Missouri is one of 4 in the United States.

There are many untruths and exaggerations about the ACA

Starting with the claims made by the President.

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Here's the sad part. There are people who will have insurance because they are "subsidized." BUT, when they are hospitalized, they will be unable to pay their deductibles.

But that's just one of the many problems and likely a trivial one compared to what is coming.

Oregon and Maryland are being investigated by the Justice Department for giving false information about the progress of their exchanges to HHS. The millions of dollars the feds gave these states went somewhere. The government gave these states many, many hundreds of millions of dollars. I was wondering... if those millions had been used to just buy health insurance for the folks that didn't have any when all this started, we'd have lots left over about now.

PJ O'Rourke quipped many years ago... "If you think health care is expensive now... just wait until it's free."

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None of those four exchanges are bankrupt. Many of the state-run exchanges have cost more to get up and running than initially expected, although they aren't "bankrupt". If cost overruns means a government program is "bankrupt" then the department of defense has gone bankrupt more times than can be counted.

Having each state re-invent the wheel by creating and running their own exchanges is expensive, as evidenced by the state's costs for this, these four states in particular, which part of why 36 states use the already existing federal exchange.

If you're concerned about what it costs these four states to build and operate their own exchanges it could be worse, the "repeal and replace" plans suggest that there would be no option for states to utilize a federally run exchange, meaning these costs wouldn't just be limited to 4 states.

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None of those four exchanges are bankrupt.

Like that Monty Python skit where the pet store owner argues that the parrot isn't dead he's just "resting". Sorry to disturb the narrative.

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"Bring out your dead!" Bring out your dead!"

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