Measuring Obamacare enrollment is actually kind of tricky

Washington Post ^ | October 7, 2013 | By Sarah Kliff

[Oldeconomybuyer]

We're nearly one week into Obamacare's open enrollment period. What we do know: It's been a bumpy ride. What we don't know: How many people have signed up.

That's because there are a number of steps in the application process for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. And states are using lots of different metrics to determine how well their new insurance marketplaces are going.

When the District of Columbia's Health Benefit Link crunches the numbers on who has done what on their Web site ... on the D.C. Health Link's first day, 175 people requested invoices whereas four people actually went ahead and paid the premium.

[Travis McGee]

I think we’re being goaded into a bad response, to be used as an excuse for a crackdown.

[Grampa Dave]

Measuring the abject failure of ObozoCare is simple. Trying to find success in enrolling in ObozoCare is next to impossible:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3076143/posts

Experts: Only “Hundreds” Have Been Able to Sign Up for Obamacare Online Gateway Pundit ^ | October 7, 2013 | Jim Hoft

Posted on Monday, October 07, 2013 9:34:46 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

What ineptitude.

In Obamacare’s first week online.
** Millions of Americans were turned away.
** The online system crashed.
** 99% of applications may have hit a wall and weren’t processed.
** The Obamacare website shut down after only a week in operation.

Now this… Only “hundreds” have been able to sign up for a health care plan at the Obamacare websites. The Wall Street Journal reported:

About 30 million uninsured people live in the states the federal marketplace will serve, including Texas and Florida.

So far, Web-traffic problems are allowing only a small trickle of buyers, said John Gorman, chief executive of Gorman Health Group, an insurance-industry consulting firm with clients selling policies on the exchanges.

Large insurers have seen enrollment figures totaling in the hundreds each, said Sumit Nijhawan, chief executive of Infogix Inc., a data-integrity firm that works with such insurers as WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc. and Cigna Corp.

So far, many tens of thousands of people had started the application process but the number of those who were able to create accounts and shop for coverage is likely in the low thousands, according to people with knowledge of the situation and estimates by insurance-industry advisers.

The administration has declined to say the total number of enrollees.

Team Obama also has been exaggerating their numbers…
For example, California initially claimed more than 5 million hits on the first day of enrollment, but has now clarified that they received only 645,000.

[catnipman]

Sounds like one of those deals that depends on what the definition of “is” is. Actually, this article is a good analysis of sketchy data, and the bottom line is that it shows that the BammyKare train has already smashed through the “Bridge Out!” sign and is only seconds away from the plunge down the gorge.

The Pubs should stand tall for delaying BammyKare for the peasants for at least a year, just like the Bammster himself illegally delayed it for big and small biz for a year. As the word filters out that BammyKare triples most people’s insurance premiums as well as doubles their deductibles, the peasants will have lit their torches and gathered their pitchforks and will be demanding the delay themselves, despite the massive spin the KommieMedia has used to desperately hide the train wreck. I mean after all, who are the peasants gonna believe, their own eyes are the lying KommieMedia?

[stevie_d_64]

So, 4 people (in D.C.) actually paid the tax, so that oney could be re-distributed per the intent of this entitlement program...

Stupid is as stupid does...

[Hulka]

“Now this… Only “hundreds” have been able to sign up for a health care plan at the Obamacare websites. The Wall Street Journal reported:”

If that is true, why hasn’t WSJ (or any number of media) found one of those hundreds and interviewed them?

I say again, the reason they haven’t been interviewed is because NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLT sign-up.

IMHO.

[Grampa Dave]

“I say again, the reason they haven’t been interviewed is because NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLT sign-up.”

You may be correct, and there may be another issue.

That issue is the apparent very high cost of ObozoCare, plus the higher deductibles and co pays.

If and when potential users get through, they are shell shocked re the high costs and don’t sign up.