White House says Obamacare enrollment exceeds 6 million
Source: Reuters
The White House said on Thursday that more than 6 million people have now signed up for private insurance plans under President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law known as Obamacare, reflecting a surge in enrollments days before the March 31 deadline.
Ten days ago, the administration had pegged enrollment at more than 5 million people, and enlisted celebrities and top government officials to try to convince more uninsured people - particularly the young and healthy - to sign up.
The last-minute boost has exceeded the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's estimate that 6 million people would sign up in the program's first year, down from earlier expectations of 7 million enrollees because of problems with websites used for shopping for insurance. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Sandra Maler)
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/27/usa-healthcare-enrollment-idUSL1N0MO1E720140327
Obamacare Reaches New Milestone: 6 Million Sign-Ups
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https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/449250975778619392
News that 6 million signed up for Obamacare DESPITE horrible rollout/press coverage etc... means GOP's campaign to undo law is dead forever
can you imagine if all states had participated.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)He needs to start campaigning right now.
trublu992
(489 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)I worked all my life as a teacher, left my home for another state to care give for my mother with Alzheimer's for more than 5 yrs, and did private contract work while helping my mother. So I bought my own individual insurance. Then I got cancer and was told by my BCBS insurance co. they couldn't cover me to end of contract due to the ACA. I enlisted the help of my Congressman, Chris van Hollen. Thank Goddess for him and his staff! I got my old contract restored until I could get Obamacare. I love O for this. Without Ocare, I would be paying out of pocket for cancer treatments that are way beyond my ability to pay. I might even lose my beloved home I've worked for 30 yrs. to pay off.
Repukes couldn't care less since they're always taken care of by their rich puppetmasters. I despise them.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)I never get a straight answer.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)I am not a rollover, I'm a person who would have had NO insurance without O-care, and I have a life threatening illness.
I guess that's OK with repugs if I couldn't afford the medical care I need. THEY need 5 Rolls Royces sitting in the driveways of their mansions.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)of the new sign-ups.
How many had insurance
shortly before they acquired ACA?
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Gee, just around the time I was diagnosed with a serious life threatening illness and they were starting to get some bills ---for the first time in my life, they had to pay out. Coincidence they wanted to cut me off before the contract was over? I don't think so. They sent me an email on Dec. 17 ---b/c I had emailed them asking what my new premium would cost when the contract ended Jan. 31----saying my insurance was ending on Dec. 31 "due to the ACA." I enlisted the help of my Dem congressman's office and they did a superb job. BCBS then told the congressman its message had a typo about the end date. Yeah, right.
And your point about rollover is....?
quadrature
(2,049 posts)many people are having their health insurance
dropped or modified because ACA lets that happen.
Which is a great deal.(if you are the insurance company).
............
my point about rollovers is,
I would like to know how many
of the new ACA policyholders...
were in a good situation,
until they were throw
under the bus.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)yes indeed