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Obamacare Enrollment Explained In Three Charts
By now the distinction that "enrollment" in Obamacare does not actually mean coverage should be painfully clear: one still has to pay, and according to a recent analysis up to 50% of "enrollees" in any given state have not paid, which means the White House's number of 2.1 million sign ups through December 28 is vastly overstating the reality (especially if one ignores the 5+ million of torn up, lost insurance policies as a result of Obamacare). But even if one clearly delineates what is meant by "enrollment" in the most epic failure of a ponzi scheme to ever emerge from a developed nation (with a recently disclosed penchant for Big Brother-yness), what conclusions can one draw about the current participants in obligatory, socialized insurance as most recently disclosed by the administration? Here is the summary: only 24% of all new insured are in the targeted 28-34 age group; only 21% of participants will get no subsidy (which means 79% will be subsidized), and finally more women (54%) than men have signed up.
The above in charts, with commentary from Bloomberg:
About 30 percent of new enrollees are under 35. White House officials say that’s an acceptable mix, and they expect more young people to come on board closer to the March 31 deadline. “We think that more and more young people are going to sign up as time goes by, based on the experience in Massachusetts,” Gary Cohen, deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, said on a conference call with reporters. “We’re actually very pleased with the percentage that we have right now, and we expect that percentage to increase.”
Most of the people who bought coverage on the exchanges this fall got subsidies to help them afford the premiums. That’s in contrast to the first month of the program, when less than one-third of buyers were subsidized. People earning up to four times the poverty rate—as much as $96,000 a year for a family of four—can get help buying coverage.
The numbers released today don’t count people who bought health plans off the exchanges. Given the website’s technical problems, people buying insurance who earn too much for subsidies may have bypassed healthcare.gov entirely and purchased plans from brokers or directly from insurance companies. The government doesn’t yet have data on how many people got coverage directly.
Under Obamacare, insurers can’t charge men and women different rates—or, as Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius put it, “Starting in 2014, being a woman is no longer a preexisting condition.” That generally resulted in lower prices for women compared with insurance markets where underwriting by gender is allowed, so it’s not surprising women signed up in greater numbers.
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What?! You mean I have to PAY for my FREE healthcare?!
It's MOAR free.
Obozo's Waterloo.
Even if you don't like yo Chinee Clusterfuck,
You get to keep yo Chinee Clusterfuck.
Defining success down since January 20, 2009. I wonder when someone in the MSM will have the courage to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
Forward (over the cliff)!
Punch it Louise
It's Forward Comrade!
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius put it, “Starting in 2014, being a woman is no longer a preexisting condition.”
JFC, what a stupid, worthless cunt.
20% signed up without a subsidy?
WHY?
How does Obamacare lower the cost of care?
This is just tax dollars going into pockets of medical industrial complex and low wage corporations.
You are now paying for Walmart workers's healthcare instead of the Waltons.
It's going to the INSURANCE companies, NOT those that actually provide direct medical care. That is the fundamental problem with the US health care system - the money is NOT going to provide direct health care, it goes to insurers, pharmaceutical and medical device companies and damn near everyone BUT doctors and hospitals.
Obamacare was a gift to the insurance companies - requiring people to buy insurance.
But the progressives need to lure, I mean snooker, more youths to make this all work, it's what they say.
Tee Hee! Good luck with that!
Remember: The Obama Bin Lyin' definition of "Singed up"
Logged on and logged the fuck off... Those 20% don't really exist, now do they...
No, they've been singed.
<sorry, couldn't resist>
At what point do we begin to shoot...no...subject these equality of misery fucktards to their own laws?
Other than the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, this is easily the biggest fucking clusterfuck in fed.gov history. Thanks, Bathhouse.
it's actually another on your list. In the end, when they can't get the revenue, empires turn their wars against their own
Yeah, I heard it was $free.99...wtf
60% of the time, it works everytime.
America had the most expensive health care in the world before Obamacare.
Now its even MOARER expensive with Obozocare.
Only Govt. could create one clusterfuck ,and then make it worse(r).
Lol. Yeah, America can't do anything right, other than war.
Uhhhh......they can't even do that right.
As well as the most expensive burgers.
Will Zero'Bamabotcare fix that? If so, how? How is it fair to compare differing levels of subsidized prices, when an object measure of price does not even exist?
The banks have had their way at the trough since 2008; ObamCare is supposed to be the insurance industry's turn
I don't make much money anymore. Mine has a zero dollar premium and zero deductible. I did not support this, but I'll take free.
To quote P. J. O'Rourke.....if you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's "free".
That means you didn't really get through on the exchange. They are going to sign you up.
You better go down to the drug store and pay out of pocket for KY, anbesol and some tucks pads. When they sign you up it ain't going to be $0 and $0, baby...
Nothing socialized about the un-ACA, sort of misleading to say so. If it was along the lines of every other country with socialized h/c it would cost 8% of GDP(not the current 16% or forecast 24%), everyone would be covered and no deductibles at all. Do the math. It is quite simply corporatized h/c.
I'm surprised that the number of young is as large as it is. Wow!! I wonder how they break down in terms of income and prior health conditions. I'd bet that most of the under 34 crowd are either so high in income that buying insurance is cheaper than the penalty tax, are married to someone of high income, are already sick, or are monumentally stupid.
I'll go with "monumentally stupid".
These numbers will be "revised" down, next week.
Like all the rest.
dup
"'I'm surprised that the number of young is as large as it is. Wow!!"
Probably covered under their parents or got it from an employer.
Dup.
ROTFL!!!
Almost 80% of the much fawned over "healthy" 28-34yr olds will get a .gov subsidy...can you say crash & burn?
Crash and burn?
Don't you mean...'according to plan'?
Yes & no.
Everyone knows what they wanted, the first ones to propose it will get a rod shoved up their ass & slow roasted over an open fire. So who's it gonna be?
Barry's a lame duck with just skin left on the bone, not as tasty as a fresher meat ;-)
This is EXACTLY per the plan. No surprises here. Broken so bad, that cough cough single payer will be the only fix....
All these years my Father proclaimed that money never grew on trees...was he wrong?
Yeah, the FED has money trees.
So does farmers....
The real screwup with Obamacare is trying to tie healthcare to income using the subsidies. It might have worked if they offered the subsidized package to everyone, then used income tax to stick it to higher incomes. I wonder how many signees are actually new Medicaid recipients? The evolution of this mess will be a 'national plan' that anyone can enroll in.
Of the 6 million signees......3.9 million signed up for the expanded medicaid benefits.
2.1 million signed up for private health insurance through the exchange.
Even the communist news network. jaw-dropped:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/13/news/economy/obamacare-coverage/
Yep, all the figures I have seen show about 2/3 of the signups are for Medicaid. Your numbers bear this out. As a result, the next battle lines to be drawn will be over the imploding risk pools. You know what's coming... a giant clusterfark that pits taxpayers against bailouts on one side, bloated insurance companies on the other side, and nervous lawmakers in the middle afraid to piss anyone off. Good luck with selling an insurance bailout in that environment. 2014 is going to be a bloodbath in so many ways for so many people. 0zer0care = Anti-matter... the gift that keeps on destroying.
LOOPHOLE - GET THE WORD OUT!
http://2017project.org/2013/12/escape-obamacare/#.UtSEUpuhvUO
“Starting in 2014, being a woman is no longer a preexisting condition.”
Every woman I've ever dated comes with 'the wound that never heals', and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I try to stay away from any form of "health" care these days.
Here is a good example of why I feel this way. Was helping a friend Saturday with her 95 year old Alzheimer's mother. A home health care RN had been supposed to come by & check on the mom since Thursday. When she finally showed up, the mom had on a jogging suit type jacket, which needed to be removed to check her blood pressure. The nurse grabbed her arm, held it straight out sideways and started tugging on the end of the jacket sleeve while the rest of the jacket was still on her.
I am not letting people that stupid get anywhere near me.
Are there any State's representatives saying, "No thanks, feds. We dont recognize your claim to tell our residents what to do with regards to healthcare. It's ok, we got this."?
Subsidize my ride bitchez!
Get back to me in December with the %'s.
Are these numbers rigged? Tell me it's not so!!
Obamacare: "Caring for the insurance companies one forced premium at a time."
"Get with the program or we'll ICD9-E978 your ass."
And we can't leave the NSA out of this while we are at it.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/10/15/obamacare-web-program-dev...
Where did the feds turn? To a previously authorized cyber engineering firm, CGI, who held a very special status - “Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity.” As the Washington Examiner outlined:
Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut.
Rather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid accepted a sole bidder, CGI Federal, the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian company with an uneven record of IT pricing and contract performance.
CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare’s problem-plagued web portal.
Instead, it appears they used what amounts to a federal procurement system loophole to award the work to the Canadian firm. [...]
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so how does the NSA tie into healthcare.gov you might ask
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CGI owns another company called Silver Oak Solutions (SOS) which specializes in business construction platforms which take advantage of large government contracts. Seemingly innocuous until you look into what SOS controls under their proprietary development.
“PRISM®” might be familiar to you because of NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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as the article concludes
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So a mandatory taxation program (Obamacare) which has the enforcement arm of the IRS, and an additional 16,000 approved IRS agents, yet contains no baseline “income verification” within the legislation, is being implemented by a data registry/collection platform which also provides the National Security Agency with data intelligence on American citizens.
Well at least now we know why CGI is operating out of Canada. Because so long as the data collection is “international” the extent of the data mining by the NSA is unlimited.
See how these guys operate in back dooring things yet along with gaming the gao contracting process along with using those public/private partnerships to game the law at the same time. If you aren't angry you aren't paying attention.....
NSA honeypot.
ROFLOL
Well played, NSA. Well played.
The Nazi are the archetypical government and should be studied in depth.
They lasted about 12 years and brought millions to poverty, misery and death--the only thing government can produce. Their actions led the country to be overrun and occupied by foreign peoples and powers, which they said they came to power to prevent--Government always accomplishes the opposite of the stated goal. They said that they were serving the people, but ran death camps, tyrannical institutions like the Gestapo and industrial complexes dedicated to extracting liberty, wealth and life from same said people--It is always about money and power.
Ultimately one should realize that government is of people serving themselves to what are you and yours, up to and including your life.
"Believing in government is like believing in a Santa Clause that is armed with guns and bombs."
Could someone please define a "temporary" "legal execution" for me? "Wow that was close, they only shot/hung/gassed me temporarily."
http://americanholocaustcoming.blogspot.mx/2013/11/obamacare-codes-confi...
Not this crap again. You are either one of them Obama fear mongering trolls or your tinfoil is on just a little bit too tight there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Statistical_Classification_of...
The International Classification of Diseases (also known by the abbreviation ICD) is the United Nations-sponsored World Health Organization’s "standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes."[1] The ICD is designed as a health care classification system, providing a system of diagnostic codes for classifying diseases, including nuanced classifications of a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or disease. This system is designed to map health conditions to corresponding generic categories together with specific variations, assigning for these a designated code, up to six characters long. Thus, major categories are designed to include a set of similar diseases.
The International Classification of Diseases is published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and used worldwide for morbidity and mortality statistics, reimbursement systems, and automated decision support in health care. This system is designed to promote international comparability in the collection, processing, classification, and presentation of these statistics.
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http://www.icd9data.com/2007/Volume1/E800-E999/E970-E978/E978/default.htm
It has been on the books since at least 2007 which is prior to Obamacare being passed into law.
Ovomitcare is another example of the courts legislating. It's a head tax too. If you don't make any money and you don't buy insurance, they claim you owe a fine.
Where is the federal govt constitutionally granted the right to know what you buy in order to tax you?
We used to have a local head tax but half the people ignored it. Nothing happened to them BTW, but now it's under the full force of fed goons.
Obammy care is an entitlement. All entitlements are extraordinary protections paid for with money from the public treasury. All entitlements fall under the umbrella of the Social Security Act. The Social security act was a federal revenue measure tied to State Police powers. The SS Act required State federal cooperation.All entitlements are statutorily created rights. Rights created by statutes are Privileges. Congress can TAX the privileges it creates.
The constitution is irrelevent. IF you made application into the system, YOU waived rights of property and contract in exchange for the privilege.
No reason to down vote your theory. People that do down vote it just don't like the message, even if the message has truth in it. To those that don't like the message, realize that the destruction of the constitution is being engineered by Sociopaths. It's what they do, and the rule of law (constitution) is the only thing that can stop them. Instead, recognize the reality of the corrupt system, and who and what is running it. Only by understanding your enemy, can you defeat him. Embrace the truth, even if it's ugly. Only by understanding the root cause of the corruption and destruction, can free men overcome it.
"Help" that comes out of their own pockets.
Ruminating the other day, and I realized OblamoKare should push forward the collapse of the dollar significantly.
As cash is extracted from the people the economy will falter even more and any foreigner with more than 70 points of IQ will realize the unstoppable end is a US Dollar that is worth less than one ply toilet paper.
Who ARE these people who sign up for this nonsense? How utterly indifferent one must be in regard to who is in power and who controls and fucks up your life... it's beyond belief... I think it is one big experiment: if people swallow OnutterCare, then you can disarm them also...
More women than men have signed up for Obamacare.
Wow! Who's surpised by this? Women fucking love socialism. They fucking eat it up.
Marc Rudov said it best. "Women are capitalists in the workplace, and socialist in their social lives". Just look at all the free shit they get. They get so much money in social payments, they social pundits are making statements in the media that there are more households being lead by females who are the main breadwinners. Dig a little deeper and it's nothing but an unemployed welfare queen getting EBT payments.
You go gurl!
Low or no income people will get no cost to them health insurance by signing up and a penalty for not signing, but people that do not make enough to pay taxes can not be penalized. Most working single mothers do not make enough to not be eligible for subsidies. Young single men with good jobs will be paying big bucks for very little. For example a oil field worker putting in 50 hours a week in the Bakken.
Don't pay anything to the FEDs and quit working.
Let's see who can last the longest M'Fers.
What's the point of worrying about having enough youth enrolled if they're subsidized anyway?
just libs buying votes and taking care of their insurance co contributors and friends of Patrick Ewing in drag (Michelle) ... nothing to do with "healthcare"... the libs will swoop in with a fix... "free" natinoal healthcare for all ... mortality rate will skyrocket... less underemployed amerikans... kill 2 birds with one stone... plus added bene is killing off the oldest will reduce the "bird"en of entitlements...like every libtard program (war on poverty) it consumes trillions that could be used to generate a real economy... there is no cure for stupid (see the article on ps 106) and stupid votes libtards into office..for free/subsidized shit..