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Reality Check: MNsure’s First Month
CBS News Minneapolis ^ | November 1, 2013 | By Pat Kessler

Posted on 11/03/2013 5:45:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Minnesota reports 25,864 individuals and 831 employers created accounts as of Oct. 30, during what’s referred to as the “window shopping” phase.

As of Oct. 16, MNsure reports 3,769 people checked out and paid for new policies, which go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.

That includes 2,496 people who got Medicaid coverage, 867 working poor who got MNCare and 406 individuals who bought private insurance.

(Excerpt) Read more at minnesota.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: failure; obamacare; rinocare; socialism
Forward!!
1 posted on 11/03/2013 5:45:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course we can count on these numbers being accurate, just like the poll numbers from the last election and the unemployment numbers. /S


2 posted on 11/03/2013 5:51:59 AM PST by STYRO (War sucks. Living in slavery sucks even worse.)
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:: That includes 2,496 people who got Medicaid coverage, 867 working poor who got MNCare and 406 individuals who bought private insurance. ::

I believe those 867 “working poor” sign-ups were found over the weekend in the trunk of Trumka’s CrownVic.


3 posted on 11/03/2013 5:55:37 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m wondering how many of those 3800 (remember the 4400 on TV?) paid for it because the website said they’d get a whopping subsidy?


4 posted on 11/03/2013 5:55:50 AM PST by Gaffer
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5 posted on 11/03/2013 5:58:25 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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——That includes 2,496 people who got Medicaid coverage, 867 working poor who got MNCare and 406 individuals who bought private insurance.——

here’s the arithmetetic conclusion....

2,496+867= 3,363 / 406 = 8.28

Each of the private insurance buyers is paying for 8.28 others.


6 posted on 11/03/2013 5:58:57 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can you say “Adverse Selection” boys and girls?

For Obamacare to work financially, these numbers would have to be reversed. If the majority of enrollees turn out to be the chronically sick and the poor who get free Medicaid or subsidies, the costs will rise astronomically.


7 posted on 11/03/2013 6:00:13 AM PST by wildbill (Biting)
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To: bert

That should keep us awake nights.


8 posted on 11/03/2013 6:00:46 AM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WOW, this is progress! 370,170,000 to go!


9 posted on 11/03/2013 6:14:45 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Having spent more than $150 million on its creation, Minnesotans deserve better,

Holy crap and it's for only one state. Does it tell these suckers who are in and out of network?

10 posted on 11/03/2013 6:40:09 AM PST by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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——That includes 2,496 people who got Medicaid coverage, 867 working poor who got MNCare and 406 individuals who bought private insurance.——

I'm starting to wonder if Obamacare is just a distraction from what is really happening.

89% of the people are signing up for "free government insurance" and we are worried about the 11% who are signing up for crappy private insurance.

If there are truly 40 million uninsured people in the country and 89% of them sign up for free insurance, that's 35,600,000 more people on the dole for another federal program. How much is that going to cost? And where is the money coming from?

11 posted on 11/03/2013 6:48:05 AM PST by oldbrowser (The debt limit is the emergency brake on government spending)
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How much is that going to cost? And where is the money coming from?

Q1: "not one dime"

Q2: Transferred (stolen) from Medicare

12 posted on 11/03/2013 7:13:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One of the major goals of Obamacare is being achieved - that of greatly expanding the Medicaid rolls. States who agreed to the Medicaid expansion are going to have huge holes blasted in their budgets after the federal subsidies expire (2015?). Taxpayers are going to take it on the chin when that time comes, but once instituted, these programs take on a life of their own that’s hard to kill off.

Those states who refused the Medicaid expansion (primarily red states, but a few purple ones) are going to be in much better shape fiscally and much cheaper states in which to work and live.

If I lived in one of the Medicaid expanding states, I’d be looking at the possibility of moving ASAP.


13 posted on 11/03/2013 7:35:39 AM PST by randita
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To: bert

Stole and tweeted. (:


14 posted on 11/03/2013 7:36:56 AM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
That includes 2,496 people who got Medicaid coverage, 867 working poor who got MNCare and 406 individuals who bought private insurance.

So he number is 867 with nobody that didn't get a subsidy enrolling in the exchange. Keep that up and failure is all but guaranteed,

15 posted on 11/03/2013 7:57:31 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: oldbrowser

I’ve been saying for a month that most Obama/Dem voters may well skate past any Obamacare pain via waivers, subsidies, and medicaid.

Only time will tell for sure.


16 posted on 11/03/2013 8:00:51 AM PST by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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I’ve been saying for a month that most Obama/Dem voters may well skate past any Obamacare pain via waivers, subsidies, and medicaid.

I see it as a way to nationalize the insurance industry. We will all be getting "free" insurance and the government will own us.

17 posted on 11/03/2013 8:14:50 AM PST by oldbrowser (The debt limit is the emergency brake on government spending)
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