Obamacare: Fifteen percent of Covered California enrollees haven't paid

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 03/09/2014 | Tracy Seipel

[artichokegrower]

With less than a month left to sign up for private insurance under the federal health care law, California's enrollment numbers are closing in on the magic number of 1 million as 8,000 people sign up every day.

If only everyone would pay their premiums.

Roughly 15 percent of the Californians who had enrolled by Jan. 31 still haven't sent in their first month's payment, according to four major health insurance companies participating in the Covered California exchange. So those lofty enrollment numbers could soon be dropping substantially.

[artichokegrower]

Who saw this coming?

[lowbridge]

Pay for what? Its supposed to be free, aint it? /s

[steve86]

15% is a surprising small proportion actually.

[Carry_Okie]

I’m surprised it’s that good.

[Ghost of SVR4]

With less than a month left to sign up for private insurance under the federal health care law

Not very "private". is it?

[Calvin Locke]

I would imagine that if you looked in the mirror, you’d see someone who’s paying for the the majority of those whose premiums are current.

[Chode]

if they admit to 15%, you KNOW it's prolly 30%, or more...

[steve86]

True, if what you’re saying is that mostly heavily subsidized people enrolled and paid their premiums. But regarding the mirror, no, I haven’t paid federal tax in many years.

[BunnySlippers]

FREE healthcare.

[lacrew]

I’d be willing to bet that ‘enrolled’ counts a huge number of expanded medicare sign-ups.

[steve86]

Expanded Medicaid doesn’t involve premiums, and the excerpt talks about private insurance, so I’m not sure about that.

[Rembrandt]

I’d love to know what percentage of the people who’ve signed up are employees of the DNC, various unions and state gummint or are typical democrat voters residing in cemeteries.

[publius911]

15% is a surprising small proportion actually.

Not if 75% of the remainder are Medicaid, the new monster welfare program...

[steve86]

As I said a few posts back, Medicaid/Medi-Cal recipients don’t pay any premiums at all. It would be unbelievably stupid, even for a California paper, to include them in the calculation.

[Right Wing Assault]

the magic number of 1 million

Why is it magic?

[Grampa Dave]

"Pay for what? Its supposed to be free, aint it? /s"