The 7.1 million is a real number. It’s just a meaningless real number unless you know how many of them are re-insuring after ObamaCare caused them to lose a cheaper but better plan that they liked, how many intended to buy ObamaCare but have not paid, how many put a policy in the cart to see the price but never intended to buy, how many are fictional and were shopping purely to see how bad ObamaCare is, how many are non-citizens signing up at one of the Mexican embassies that are helping to process applications (really!), how many have expensive medical conditions, and how many other Americans lost insurance and are unwilling or unable to sign up.
The most plausible number I have is less than one million genuine “successes” in which a previously uninsured US citizen signed up for ObamaCare and paid the premium, compared with more than five million (possibly far more) failures in which Americans lost their coverage due to this terrible law and did not re-insure.
As Mark Levin said today, Obama wrecked the greatest healthcare system in the world for 800,000 people.
2 million lost their current insurance and had no where else to go. Their rates are up 40% avg., deductibles tripled.
2 million are Medicaid.
2 million are subsidized and pay nothing.
1.1 million are young people duped by the ads who pay almost nothing.
There is your 7.1 million.
‘Secretive Obamacare Study Reportedly Reveals ‘Enrollment’ Numbers the White House Doesn’t Want to Talk About’
Excerpt:
But numbers from the RAND Corporation study reportedly suggest just 23 percent of enrollees had no insurance previously. Further, the study reveals about just 53 percent of previously uninsured Americans have actually paid for their new plans.
“If those numbers hold, the actual net gain of paid policies among Americans who lacked medical insurance in the pre-Obamacare days would be just 858,298,” the Daily Mail reports.
You may have missed the point.
The 7.1 million number IS a LIE.
If it were real, they would have lied and told us 8 or 10 million.
Look at the pace at which the reported numbers grew in the final days, and then recall that the site crashed on the last day.
I f the numbers were real, they’d also be bragging about the demographics of the enrollees.
It’s all bogus.