UPDATE: ACA Signups: Lots of Stuff Happened Today

[ProSense]

UPDATE: ACA Signups: Lots of Stuff Happened Today

by Brainwrap

Frankly, I'm too damned tired to go into detail, so here's a bunch of links:

Where to begin? Well, starting late last night...

Arkansas: Medicaid up 5,800 since 2/26

Ohio Medicaid Expansion More than Doubles since 2/20 to 54K

Colorado breaks 100K QHPs; nearly double the February rate

Here's why the Off-Exchange QHP Project is so difficult...and so important

Hawaii QHPs up to 5,400, daily avg. 24% higher in March than February

New York: Total enrollments up to 666K, up 76K since 3/10

Minnesota: Up 4,350 total since 3/12; March rate up 50% over Feb.

Colorado: 100K QHPs confirmed; Medicaid up to 151K

Mississippi (yes, Mississippi) up to 28,500 QHPs, slightly ahead of Feb. avg.

Washington State: Paid QHPs up 3,200, but Unpaid DOWN 10K; cleanup in progress?

Oh, Yeah, one more thing: Apparently Christopher Hayes displayed The Graph on his show tonight, and credited ACASignups.net, which is awesome

Speaking of which...



Update: Here's the MSNBC video...The Graph shows up about 1:30 in and again a few minutes later...embed doesn't seem to work...thanks to Mokurai for the link...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/18/1285826/-ACA-Signups-Lots-of-Stuff-Happened-Today

That is an awesome chart.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Nothing but net

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=UNH&t=5y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

[ProSense]

2. LOL! I'm sure the people on Medicaid care. Here:

Let’s begin with the meme threatening that healthcare reform will lead to a serious decline in full-time employment as employers reduce workforce hours to below 30 per week in the effort to avoid their responsibility to provide health benefits to their employees.

It turns out that there has, in fact, been no such rush to reduce work hours. Indeed, numbers released last week reveal that precisely the opposite is taking place.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the number of part-time workers in the United States has fallen by 300,000 since March of 2010 when the Affordable Care Act was passed into law. What’s more, in the past year alone—the time period in which the nation was approaching the start date for Obamacare—full-time employment grew by over 2 million while part-time employment declined by 230,000.

And it gets even more interesting.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/18/1285643/-Every-Democrat-who-wants-to-win-should-memorize-Rick-Ungar-s-piece-on-the-FACTS-about-Obamacare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024689041

Under Obamacare, Disney World Will Promote Its Part-Time Workers To Full-Time Status
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023767654

[progressoid]

5. Hey, somebody has to pay those executives their $50 million.

http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensation.action?t=UNH

[ProSense]

6. You know what's hilarious?

The same people pointing to stock performance to counter the very real impact of people gaining access to health care are the same people who attack the President for cutting overpayments to insurers via Medicare Advantage.

[progressoid]

7. If you say so.

[zeemike]

8. Hey...they work hard for the money.

[stevenleser]

12. Why did you cut it off at 5 years? If you do the max, you see the trendline hasnt changed

outside of the financial downturn which affected almost every business in the US, the slope of the 5 year period from 2000-2005 is almost the same. When you take into account the full graph dating 20+ years back, the ACA hasnt affected stock price at all.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=UNH&t=my&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

[ProSense]

14. Good work. n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

16. What, exactly, did I claim?

My point was that health insurers are doing very, very well under Obamacare. Your point is that they would have done very well anyway. We'll never know. But it's certainly true that they've wildly outperformed the S&P 500 since Obamacare started coming to fruition.

[ProSense]

19. Well,

"What, exactly, did I claim? My point was that health insurers are doing very, very well under Obamacare. "

...that. It's nonsensical spin.

FYI: Insurers can be dropped from the exchange if they don't follow the rules and they they pay a fee to participate.

Health Insurers Will Be Charged to Use New Exchanges
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/health/health-insurers-will-be-charged-to-use-new-exchanges.html

[phleshdef]

15. Dishonest. Look at the past decade.

[MannyGoldstein]

17. Personal attack. nt

[phleshdef]

18. Predictable dodge.

[mcar]

3. A truly awesome chart

Thanks PS

[Cresent City Kid]

4. The numbers would go up by one if I could ever get through

So far I've been kicked off the site 17 times. Golf ball meet garden hose.

[mountain grammy]

9. It's working in Colorado, even as the Koch hired actress tells us how she "hates political ads"

like the one she's being paid to do, because health care shouldn't be political and Obamacare is a failure.

Not for this family. My husband and daughter now have insurance ID cards and are covered. My husband's plan is ok, he's only one year from Medicare. My 25 year old daughter's plan is awesome.

I see it as one step to single payer, which will eventually happen.

[JayhawkSD]

10. California run quite a lot of ads.

"Covered California.gov" I wish they'd run more because they are quite tasteful and free from hype and screaming. Then maybe I wouldn't have to see as many of those stupid drug ads which tell me to "ask my doctor" about something which will solve the "leaking bladder problem" which I don't have and then drone endlessly about how the medicine might make my hair fall out and my skin fall off.

[librechik]

11. I saw that lying ad yesterday "Obamacare doesn't work. It just doesn't"

"Millions have lost their insurance" SHAMELESS

[FSogol]

13. K & R. n/t

[ProSense]

20. More updates

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Vermont hits 30K QHPs, 53.8K Medicaid, 35K SHOP (via Off-Exchange)?

Short version: Vermont released some impressive, but also confusing enrollment data, which suggests that they've broken over 100K total enrollments.

Pennsylvania: Chalk up 42.5K more Off-Exchange Enrollments!

Short version: Contributors dug up solid evidence of a good 42K+ Off-Exchange enrollments from Independence Blue Cross of Pennsylvania

New Mexico: ACA-enabled Medicaid up 10x (sort of) to 103K!

Short version: Not an actual 10x increase, just that I couldn't list most of NM's Medicaid data prior to this.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/19/1285988/-ACA-Signups-Updates-from-OR-MA-MD-VT-PA-NM-and-my-first-real-interview