Half Full or Half Empty?
Bob Laszewski at The Health Care Blog gives a positive and a negative assessment:
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he website is working much better with enrollment increasing at least three-fold over just a few weeks ago with backroom error rates considerably improved; or - The enrollment, to give you a general sense of what’s happening, for a health plan that might have to sign-up 100,000 people in order to get their share of the 7 million Obama administration’s national enrollment objective, has grown from perhaps 10-15 enrollments a day a few weeks ago to 40-50 a day now. If this new higher trend continues, such a plan would sign up only another 12,000 people toward the 100,000 objective by March 31. Backroom error rates being committed by Healthcare.gov, when enrollment data are transmitted to the health plans, are still far too high to transition to high volume processing without serious customer service issues.
“We can all debate whether 2 million, or 7 million, or 12 million people would like to sign-up for Obamacare before the end of open enrollment on March 31. But, I think everyone can agree that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people urgently want to get signed up by January 1. Heck, at least 5 million people have already received cancellation noticeswith many still needing to purchase new coverage, or perhaps take an early renewal offer, by December 15 so as not to have a break in coverage.”
Hypochondriacs everywhere will have to be cut off from Web MD
The site will probably shut down from too much web traffic
Then how will they advertise prescription medications for the pages people are viewing?
I have no any idea. Thanks for sharing.
“0-15 enrollments a day a few weeks ago to 40-50 a day now. If this new higher trend continues, such a plan would sign up only another 12,000 people toward the 100,000 objective by March 31.”
Something has to change, and something has to change fast.
An enormous IT department might do the trick.
Or a complete shut down of the bill
“One would expect such a surge since 1 million people in California’s current individual health insurance market have received cancellation notices and must change their coverage in the short-term to avoid becoming uninsured.”
There must be a way to get more people to sign up, the ads are clearly not working.
Plus they’re scary, promiscuous people for pills is insane.
Yeah, that birth control commercial was pretty interesting. And I say that with the utmost fear. But so are the tea party ones with uncle Sam.
The number just keeps growing
And as long as insurers keep cancelling, it will.