Obamacare - some numbers
From
The Daily Caller -- it's official:
Health insurance cancellation notices soar above Obamacare enrollment rates
Hundreds of thousands of Americans who purchase their own health insurance have received cancellation notices since August because the plans do not meet Obamacare�s requirements.
The number of cancellation notices greatly exceed the number of Obamacare enrollees.
Insurance carrier Florida Blue sent out 300,000 cancellation notices, or 80 percent of the entire state�s individual coverage policies, Kaiser Health News reports. California�s Kaiser Permanente canceled 160,000 plans � half of its insurance plans in the state � while Blue Shield of California sent 119,000 notices in mid-September alone.
Two major insurance carriers in Pennsylvania, Insurance Highmark in Pittsburgh and Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia plan to cancel 20 percent and 45 percent of their total plans, respectively.
Nearly 800,000 New Jersey residents� health-care plans will not longer exist in 2014, forcing insurers to create new ones for individuals and small business owners that hew to the Obamacare�s new regulations, The New Jersey Star Ledger found in early October.
And the Obamacare numbers?
More Americans have lost their individual health coverage in Florida and California than have gotten past the login screen on HealthCare.gov, according to The Washington Post, which reports that 476,000 applications have �been started,� but not completed. HealthCare.gov�s dysfunctional website has helped enrollment grind to almost a complete halt.
But it�s difficult to determine exactly how lopsided the rates of cancellations versus the rates of enrollment are � the Obama administration jealously guards the official enrollment numbers, refusing to release them to even the law�s loyal Democratic supporters.
�It�s screwed up,� New York Rep. Charlie Rangel said of the White House�s secretive maneuvers.
Several states have released Obamacare enrollment data, however, revealing extremely low rates. South Dakota reported that only 23 people enrolled in the exchanges, a mere 0.0000276 percent of that state�s population. North Dakota enrolled only 20 residents.
Alaska, meanwhile, comes in at seven total enrollees, or 0.000957 percent of Alaskans.
Sources inside the Department of Health and Human Services told The Daily Mail that only 6,200 Americans signed up for coverage the day HealthCare.gov launched, while only 51,000 applied in the first week.
About what I would expect from the masterminds of this administration.
Posted by DaveH at October 25, 2013 6:10 PM