Posted on 04/21/2014 5:07:01 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Although the deadline to sign up for an Obamacare insurance plan has officially past, the number of South Carolinians who are enrolled keeps climbing.
The S.C. Department of Insurance reported Friday that 114,789 individuals selected a plan on the federal exchange through April 15 - up from an estimate of 97,000 earlier this month.
The deadline to sign up for insurance was technically March 31, but the federal government granted an extension through mid-April to applicants who encountered any difficulty enrolling.
The newly enrolled must pay their first premium by May 1 to become insured. To date, only 67,846 of the 114,789 customers in South Carolina have done that.
"I think the truer number is the 67,846 because they have actually picked a plan and paid their premium. They are actually insured," said S.C. Insurance Director Ray Farmer.
Nearly 90 percent of residents who applied for insurance in South Carolina qualified for a federal subsidy to offset their out-of-pocket costs. Their average age was 44. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at postandcourier.com ...
Checked on status of three patients enrolled in the Texas BC exchange program who have appointments next week for one of my doctor clients today. According to BC, none have paid their premiums for April so they will now be seen as private pay. BC still hasn’t paid us for these patient’s visits in January or February as the payments must be processed by hand. Supposedly they are in process and will be paid by early May.
From what I gather, these particular patients were previously in the state high risk pool administered by Blue Cross so don’t know that a subsidy is involved but it may be.
What is the population of South Carolina? If I’m not mistaken Charleston must have 300,000 people. And Columbia has I guess about 200,000, so 164,000 I’d not that much.
Oops 114,000 I made SC ACA more successful by adding 50,000 more.
4.7 million is the current population estimate of SC.
That’s too many.
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