The Affordable Care Act

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by whell

Sticking to the only talk track that really matters: 1.1 Million now enrolled, and those enrollments do not represent polices that have been bought and paid for, so I'm not confident that those 1.1 Million will actually end up being insured. But lets stick with those numbers for a minute. And let's also assume that the state exchanges kick in another 1.1 Million, which seems far from likely.

That gives us an optimistic number of 2.2 million enrolled, with the objective of having 7 million enrolled by March 31, 2014. I suspect that by the middle of January, we'll have some feedback from the carriers about the total number of folks that have actually paid their premiums for coverage. January 10th is the deadline for paying the premium for coverage for January 2014. At least one source suggests that only about 10 - 15% of folks have actually paid anything for January 2014 premium.

Any takers on a bet that we'll end up pretty far short of 2.2 million paid policies for January 2014 coverage?

If they have to choose between paying their health premium and paying for the bills they ran up over the Holidays, my guess is, you might have something. There's another aspect of the ACA that hasn't made much sense to me..........

Who's the genius that put the payment deadline two weeks after Christmas? Delay it a month or two and more people might have the money to pay. Ya think?

Dave