Posted on 10/24/2013 12:54:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama administration said Thursday that 700,000 people have completed applications for coverage in the health law’s new marketplaces — a key step before people can begin shopping for insurance plans.
In the first telephone press conference with reporters since the launch of the exchanges more than three weeks ago, Julie Bataille, director of the CMS Office of Communications, said the agency is “confident consumers will be able to apply and enroll, certainly by Dec. 15.”
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Applications doesn’t mean coverage.
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There numbers smell like BS, much like their numbers for unemployment and the economy, which are also BS.
Doubt it. The Soviets produced billions of tons of wheat in the 30’s too.
The quota is 7,000,000 healthy, young people. I would wager a bet there are 695,000 new medicaid clients. Yippee!! More for us to subsidize.
I call shenanigans!
Applied, meaning completed or merely attempted? Does applied mean 100% were eligible and signed up? Are those who were accepted and later deleted by the software being counted twice? Get back to me with the numbers a year from now. Not that those will be any closer to the truth just like the unemployment numbers.
A web statistic is alchemy.
Actually 90% of them will get free insurance thru expanded Medicaid. The other 10% will be subsidized.
LOL! Awesome. Thanks.
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