6,035,027 via Obamacare and climbing

[SHRED]

http://acasignups.net/

2,025,432 Private Plans
4,009,595 Medicaid

[BlueStreak]

1. We are only a million short of the original goal for 2014, with 3 months left

in the open enrollment period.

We will easily exceed the goal. In what universe is greatly exceeding the goal considered a failure of any kind?

[Joel thakkar]

4. I thought

that we need 7 million only from private signups..

[BlueStreak]

13. I don't know. The spreadsheet says

"The 7 million private enrollment figure was a projection by the CBO about how many people they *expected* to enroll by 3/31/14, not an actual "success threshold". However, this number has been inextricably baked into the public consciousness as the "bar for success" so that's what's being used as a "target" number."

If that were the expectation for only the private enrollments, that means the expectation for total enrollments would have been over 30 million, which doesn't make sense.

If there are 50 million uninsured, the most that could possibly be enrolled would be under 40 million because of all the red states that are not expanding Medicare. It looks like the total enrollments will be over 10 million, which seems pretty good for the first year, considering that doesn't include people who were allowed to continue purchasing pre-ACA policies.

[Joel thakkar]

17. Thanks for clearing it up

10M sounds good...i hope media starts some good coverage for obamacare success stories and we all eventually go towards single payer.

[tridim]

2. I guess that's why David Gregory kept saying 1.5 million have signed up.

Thank you "news".

[ProSense]

3. Brainwrap

has a post up a Daily Kos.

ACASignups.net 2.0! Prv. Enrollments top 2M, Total tops 6M & More!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/29/1265876/-ACASignups-net-2-0-Prv-Enrollments-top-2M-Total-tops-6M-More

More bad news for Republicans.

GOP ‘confronting a new reality’ on healthcare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024235936

Georgia GOP operative calls Republican elected officials liars on Obamacare
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/22/1264681/-Georgia-GOP-calls-Republican-elected-officials-liars-on-Obamacare

Merry Christmas, and thanks to all Democrats who stood by and supported the health care law.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024227754

[napkinz]

5. ACA will be President Obama's Apollo 13; The GOP is America's Katrina ..

[EC]

6. I got mine.

Anthem/BlueCross/BlueShield....sure is better then the crummy Golden Rule junk insurance I had before and costs less. Lower deductables, way better co-insurance - just a much better plan. I love Obama he finally did what I have been waiting for, for near 20 years.

[napkinz]

7. ACA Signup Success Stories

1. https://www.facebook.com/acasuccessstories

2. https://www.facebook.com/acasignupsuccessstories

3. https://www.facebook.com/ilikeobamacare

4. https://twitter.com/ACASuccessStory


Spread the news!

[Lifelong Dem]

8. Benghazi!

It will soon be time for Faux News to switch gears.

[napkinz]

9. yep!

[RoccoR5955]

11. Maybe the guy in your picture

Is in extreme muscle pain, after all isn't Benghazi for bad aches and muscle pains?

[CatWoman]

23. LOL

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. The media was claiming the fact that people were getting Medicaid was a FAILURE...

Because people getting sick is supposed to be all about cashing in.

This country has warped values.

Say a doctor sets up practice in a sleepy town where everyone is healthy. He scrapes by on an average living mending the occasional broken bone from a fall.

Under a Capitalistic model, that doctor would poison the well of the town and make everyone pay for expensive tests and a select very rich few would be given the antidote and the trouble making Liberal types would be blamed for the illness.

[WillowTree]

18. That's not the reason why the Medicaid number is not particularly good news for the program.

It's certainly good news for the new Medicaid enrollees and we can all be happy for them.

But the numbers quoted in the OP aren't real good for Obamacare as a whole. What those numbers tell us is that two-thirds of the new enrollees aren't paying into the system when what we need is for there to be approximately 7 million enrolling in the market plans, and approximately 40% of those younger, healthier people, and paying into the system in order to support the coverage for those who are older or sicker.......and poorer and on Medicaid.

That's why most of the news sources are touting today that enrollment has "topped 1 million" and statements of the kind. It's the numbers enrolling in private plans that count toward the 7 million goal. Can they make it there by the end of March? We can hope, but only time will tell.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Assuming the GOAL is for this to make money instead of providing health care.

[WillowTree]

24. The GOAL is to generate sufficient premiums to PAY for health care.

Medicaid accounts aren't going to do that. There have to be enough people paying INTO the system to cover the expenses of those who cannot pay. I'm always surprised that that's so difficult for some people to understand.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. If the private plans don't pan out than the government will just have to go single payer.

[Blanks]

30. I'm pretty sure the goal is to have healthier Americans...

The larger issue becomes who is responsible for the people getting sick. If people can't go to the doctor and they're being poisoned by sulfur from coal mines or developing cancer from their diet we can't prove that's what's going on.

In the current system we'll never know. If you look at Kentucky signing up all of those poor people in coal mining country, it won't be hard to make the correlation between health hazards and mining practices (if they exist).

It will cost the folks who are trying to gut the EPA some serious money in the form of cleaning up their operations and the whole thing can be paid for by the polluters since it can be easily demonstrated by the available data.

Fines for polluting and class action suits will generate plenty of money. The Medicaid expansion is probably the best part of Obamacare for the country.

[Orrex]

12. Two days ago, NPR predicted that the ACA website would fail to meet this goal

would fail to meet this goal by the end of March.

Now what are they going to talk about?

[grantcart]

14. got my card yesterday.

[napkinz]

15. posted by ProSense

Spread the headlines to piss Republicans off:

Federal Obamacare Enrollments Soar Past One Million Mark Through Christmas Eve

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/29/3106501/obamacare-enrollments-soar-past-million-mark/

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024246463#post1

[JNinWB]

16. How many under 26 year olds have been added to family policies?

Surely, this number should be included in the totals.

[Motown_Johnny]

19. ~3.5 million...and I agree

Those people should be included in the total.

[Control-Z]

27. I've got two kids

on our new policy.

[Zorra]

20. I have a totally awesome amazing insurance policy thanks to ~ *OBAMACARE* ~!!!

And I am grinding my unbelievably great ~OBAMACARE~ insurance policy into the angry, drooling, slackjawed faces of every republican I can, every chance I can. I am not being a gracious winner at all.

[Cha]

21. Great on you, Zorra.. I remember

when you were having probs. I'm so glad you got it!

[NBachers]

28. Don't be a gracious winner- be a gloating, obnoxious, in-their-face spike the ball winner!

Strut and swagger your Obamacare victory as only Zorra can!

Fry their circuits! ObamacareObamacareObamacareObamacare

[davidpdx]

26. Glad to hear this

Having it top 6 mil before the end of the year is a BFD. I would bet on 10 mil by 3/31/14.

[Kablooie]

29. What do you bet the Republicans start taking credit for this soon?

In the next few months we'll start hearing on Fox how it was a Republican plan that the Democrats derided in the past.