Posted on 10/24/2013 8:02:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For those of you being entertained by the Obamacare disaster, I've got good news. Pop some more popcorn, sit back in your chair and watch the meltdown that will occur when the Medicaid expansion begins on November 1.
A new phase of the Obamacare launch is coming, this one involving Medicaid. And it could be déjà vu all over again.
On Nov. 1, the health law's malfunctioning enrollment system is supposed to send reams of data to states so they can begin placing thousands of people into Medicaid. But state officials say that transfer system has barely been tested and could be vulnerable to technical failures like those that have crippled the broader Obamacare sign-up process.
"We're flying blind on what the process is," said Kathleen Nolan, state policy head of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. "There hasn't been the capacity to do a lot of the testing. ... There's a natural concern that with a major load of data to be sent all at once - there is concern that what has been tested may not be able to handle the volume."
It's a challenge for state governments, and people trying to sign up for the low-income health care program could be left unsure of their coverage status.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I thought that ~90% of those signing up for BammyDontCare were binned to Medicaid.
“We’re flying blind on what the process is,””
from the house hearings.....
Question.......when can these systems be ready?
Answer.......as soon as possible.
The Keystone Cops were never this good
Lots were indeed signing up for medicaid, and not any of the Obamacare plans. A good percentage of “Obamacare enrolees” are actually medicaid enrolees.
I would bet money that many people were allowed to sign up for medicaid from states that did not participate in the medicaid expansion.
We don’t WANT them to be good at any of this. Excellence in doing evil is very dangerous.
Fortunately, the Republican governor and legislature in TX refused to expand Medicaid, so we have an automatic exemption. Thank you to our sensible voters for sending men and women with common sense to run our state government.
I gotta say it again:
We are from the government and we are here to help you.
I guess this article is supposed to apply to states which have Expanded Medicaid but do not have a working exchange?
States with both EM and a working exchange like Washington have already signed up tens of thousands.
On October 14 WA reported 22,000 Medicaid, 3,000 paid commercial, 37,000 commercial waiting for first premium payment.
“A good percentage of “Obamacare enrolees” are actually medicaid enrolees.”
We keep hearing about the success of enrollment in Washington and Oregon.
Well, in Washington and probably Oregon most of those successfully enrolled were current Medicare leeches. They will be contributing Zero/Nada bucks to ObozoScare. They will be taking money from those who work have to pay for ObozoScare.
Below is a link to a Kaiser Permanente Newsletter which tells about the so called success in Washington re current Medicare Leeches and lack of those, who have to pay, signing up:
In Some States, Most Early Marketplace Enrollees Qualify For Medicaid
By Phil Galewitz
October 22nd, 2013, 1:28 PM
In several states, most of the people enrolling through new online insurance marketplaces are signing on to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor.
The reason?
Many of the uninsured are poor, and applicants don’t have to pay anything to sign up for Medicaid. Shoppers applying for private health coverage through the marketplace have to pay their first monthly premium before they are fully enrolled. Their first payment must be made by Dec. 15 for coverage to take effect Jan. 1. Most are expected to be eligible for some tax credits, up front, to help pay the monthly premiums.
“We believe the reason we are seeing the higher Medicaid numbers is many people [buying private health plans] will wait until the last minute to pay for their health coverage like many of us do with our cell phone or cable bill,” said Bethany Frey, spokeswoman for the Washington state marketplace.
About 30,000 of the more than 35,000 people enrolled in the Washington exchange have signed up for Medicaid. Under the health law, in states that opt into the expansion, Medicaid eligibility is being expanded to cover everyone with annual incomes under 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $15,800 in 2013.
About 20,000 of the people who qualified for Medicaid in Washington gained coverage through the expansion, while the rest were eligible under existing coverage rules. Many of those who were eligible but not enrolled have been signing up as a result of the publicity around the new marketplaces, officials say.
Frey said about 56,000 additional people have completed applications to enroll in private plans in Washington but have not yet made a payment so they were not included in the state’s tally.
About two-thirds of people enrolling through Kentucky’s marketplace also qualify for Medicaid, said spokeswoman Glenda Bond. “We expected Medicaid enrollment to be more robust at the beginning because people can enroll without making a payment,” she said.
Of the more than 3,700 enrollments in process in Minnesota’s marketplace, about 2,500 are for Medicaid. Only about 400 are people who are enrolling in a health plan. But a look at Minnesota applications in process shows that private insurance enrollees could overtake the number of Medicaid enrollees in the weeks ahead — of 11,600 applications in the marketplace last week, more than 8,000 were for exchange plans.
Several states relying on the problematic federal exchange, including West Virginia and South Carolina, have also seen a surge in people applying for Medicaid because they have separate websites for Medicaid enrollment, which unlike the federal exchange site, are working. Other states, such as California, have not yet released data about what programs people have enrolled in.
Clarification: This story has been updated to reflect the number of people who are in the process of enrolling in Minnesota.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013 at 1:28 pm.
You don't even seem to know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. In actuality, zero of those newly enrolled in Washington State were already enrolled in either Medicare or Medicaid and the two are entirely separate programs.
The mechanism to enroll Medicare clients is entirely separate from the exchange and has been in place for years. This has nothing to do with that.
The article you posted is actually from The Washington Health Exchange and was picked up by Kaiser.
Not according to the IRS. This is what the current lawsuit that the fed judges are moving forward from yesterday was about. The law states that TX is exempt if they do not recieve subsidies, but the IRS says that TX will receive subsidies regardless that we do not have a state exchange.
Actually, I do know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare and have for decades. Unfortunately, my word processor and its auto correct system doesn’t.
Thanks, I have corrected the miss match.
“A good percentage of “Obamacare enrollees” are actually medicaid enrollees.” (both previous and new leeches, er enrollees)
We keep hearing about the success of enrollment in Washington and Oregon.
Well, in Washington and probably Oregon most of those successfully enrolled were current Medicaid leeches and new enrollee leeches. They will be contributing Zero/Nada/0 bucks to fund their ObozoScare. It didn’t cost them a red cent to signup.
They will be taking money from those who work and have to pay for them, the ObozoScare Medicaid leech enrollees .
Below is a link to a Kaiser Permanente Newsletter which tells about the so called success in Washington re current Medicaid Leeches and lack of those, who have to pay, signing up:
In Some States, Most Early Marketplace Enrollees Qualify For Medicaid
By Phil Galewitz October 22nd, 2013, 1:28 PM
In several states, most of the people enrolling through new online insurance marketplaces are signing on to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor.
The reason?
Many of the uninsured are poor, and applicants don’t have to pay anything to sign up for Medicaid. Shoppers applying for private health coverage through the marketplace have to pay their first monthly premium before they are fully enrolled. Their first payment must be made by Dec. 15 for coverage to take effect Jan. 1. Most are expected to be eligible for some tax credits, up front, to help pay the monthly premiums.
“We believe the reason we are seeing the higher Medicaid numbers is many people [buying private health plans] will wait until the last minute to pay for their health coverage like many of us do with our cell phone or cable bill,” said Bethany Frey, spokeswoman for the Washington state marketplace.
About 30,000 of the more than 35,000 people enrolled in the Washington exchange have signed up for Medicaid. Under the health law, in states that opt into the expansion, Medicaid eligibility is being expanded to cover everyone with annual incomes under 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $15,800 in 2013.
About 20,000 of the people who qualified for Medicaid in Washington gained coverage through the expansion, while the rest were eligible under existing coverage rules. Many of those who were eligible but not enrolled have been signing up as a result of the publicity around the new marketplaces, officials say.
Frey said about 56,000 additional people have completed applications to enroll in private plans in Washington but have not yet made a payment so they were not included in the state’s tally.
About two-thirds of people enrolling through Kentucky’s marketplace also qualify for Medicaid, said spokeswoman Glenda Bond. “We expected Medicaid enrollment to be more robust at the beginning because people can enroll without making a payment,” she said.
Of the more than 3,700 enrollments in process in Minnesota’s marketplace, about 2,500 are for Medicaid. Only about 400 are people who are enrolling in a health plan. But a look at Minnesota applications in process shows that private insurance enrollees could overtake the number of Medicaid enrollees in the weeks ahead — of 11,600 applications in the marketplace last week, more than 8,000 were for exchange plans.
Several states relying on the problematic federal exchange, including West Virginia and South Carolina, have also seen a surge in people applying for Medicaid because they have separate websites for Medicaid enrollment, which unlike the federal exchange site, are working. Other states, such as California, have not yet released data about what programs people have enrolled in.
Clarification: This story has been updated to reflect the number of people who are in the process of enrolling in Minnesota.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013 at 1:28 pm.
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