Ocare changed the rules for qualification, making additional folks eligible.
A woman just called into Mark Simone (sitting in for Hannity) and said she was on Medicare and just received a letter from HHS stating that she had been moved onto *some other form* of Medicare. She said she had never signed up for anything and never visited a HHS office. The implication being that some number of Medicaid recipients were moved from one form of Medicaid program to another form of Medicaid program. You’ll forgive me if I don’t know the proper names of the categories.
If HHS has these names (and they obviously do) and HHS just moves them from one category to another without any positive or proactive action from the insureds and then counts them as “new signups”....what should we call that? Successful implementation?