National Youth Enrollment Day is being held a day in which the webpage won’t work. I don’t know if this is funny or sad. It is funny because it shows how poorly things are being planned, but it is sad because many will lose the opportunity to enroll. It is a disastrous scenario for those who pushed for this event to happen and a setback in the administration’s attempt to attract youth enrollees.
On Monday, the headline you wish you hadn’t seen will say something like this: National Youth Enrollment Day a total failure. The article will state the numbers the administration and the promoters of the event expected, they will claim that the event was a success and that enrollment surpassed expectations. Reading further down, it would be an analysis that will say that participation was high (I mean there is a pub crawl, who wouldn’t participate) but actual enrollment wasn’t as high as expected. A few weeks later a new article will say that those who enrolled on the National Youth Enrollment Day are not receiving coverage. The article will claim that because the webpage was down, only few people actually enrolled. And because the “extended” deadline wasn’t an extension, it created a havoc that they weren’t able to handle. High nonconformity will invade the youth population and the National Youth Enrollment Day will have lasting negative consequences. Accomplishing exactly the opposite than what they wanted to do.
How will the National Youth Enrollment Day enroll youth during a pub crawl? No one will be thinking about healthcare and insurance while they are out drinking with friends. Unless they get wasted and get tricked into getting enrolled without realizing the grave mistake they are making. I don’t have anything against the initiative, I believe that there should be a push for more youth people to enroll, what I don’t agree with is the events they planned.
Maybe the idea was to get the youth so trashed that they would need to be admitted into the hospital for a banana bag to rehydrate and sober up. Then they would see the costs of health care and in turn, sign up for coverage.
Or simpler, hospitals can sign up patients to an insurance upon admittance. They simply enroll all of those who need medical treatment after a day of drinks.
“The government and Accenture believe that people who built the system are essential to keep it running until the end of the open enrollment period in seven weeks.”
But wasn’t the problem that they couldn’t keep it working? I thought the reason they were replaced was because they were essential in keeping it FROM running.
“One in five people who signed up for health insurance under the new health care law failed to pay their premiums on time and therefore did not receive coverage in January”
This is a shock because…? Expect to see more people fail to pay for their coverage. Just because the goal is to give everyone health care does not mean they will be able to afford it.
“…requiring insures to expand their provider networks and allowing patients to keep non-compliant health plans for an additional two years could harm insurers and raise prices on the exchanges.”
Doing this will please patients, but will be at the detriment of Obamacare. They keep extending these terms, prolonging ObamaCare’s effects, but it could hurt in the long run.
One in five “buyers” of health insurance weren’t covered in January because they didn’t pay their premiums on time.
I’m afraid that, of the remaining 80%, one-quarter to one-third will quit paying their premiums. Next year it could get even worse.
That little fact is definitely not something the administration is going to be mentioning as they release enrollment numbers…
National Youth Enrollment Day is being held a day in which the webpage won’t work. I don’t know if this is funny or sad. It is funny because it shows how poorly things are being planned, but it is sad because many will lose the opportunity to enroll. It is a disastrous scenario for those who pushed for this event to happen and a setback in the administration’s attempt to attract youth enrollees.
On Monday, the headline you wish you hadn’t seen will say something like this: National Youth Enrollment Day a total failure. The article will state the numbers the administration and the promoters of the event expected, they will claim that the event was a success and that enrollment surpassed expectations. Reading further down, it would be an analysis that will say that participation was high (I mean there is a pub crawl, who wouldn’t participate) but actual enrollment wasn’t as high as expected. A few weeks later a new article will say that those who enrolled on the National Youth Enrollment Day are not receiving coverage. The article will claim that because the webpage was down, only few people actually enrolled. And because the “extended” deadline wasn’t an extension, it created a havoc that they weren’t able to handle. High nonconformity will invade the youth population and the National Youth Enrollment Day will have lasting negative consequences. Accomplishing exactly the opposite than what they wanted to do.
How will the National Youth Enrollment Day enroll youth during a pub crawl? No one will be thinking about healthcare and insurance while they are out drinking with friends. Unless they get wasted and get tricked into getting enrolled without realizing the grave mistake they are making. I don’t have anything against the initiative, I believe that there should be a push for more youth people to enroll, what I don’t agree with is the events they planned.
Maybe the idea was to get the youth so trashed that they would need to be admitted into the hospital for a banana bag to rehydrate and sober up. Then they would see the costs of health care and in turn, sign up for coverage.
That is so outlandish that it probably was the idea all along.
Or simpler, hospitals can sign up patients to an insurance upon admittance. They simply enroll all of those who need medical treatment after a day of drinks.
“It’s not ideal,” another Obamacare ally said”
For healthcare.gov to be out on National Youth Enrollment Day is indeed not ideal.
More and more setbacks for ObamaCare. At this point it is almost comical.
“The government and Accenture believe that people who built the system are essential to keep it running until the end of the open enrollment period in seven weeks.”
But wasn’t the problem that they couldn’t keep it working? I thought the reason they were replaced was because they were essential in keeping it FROM running.
“One in five people who signed up for health insurance under the new health care law failed to pay their premiums on time and therefore did not receive coverage in January”
This is a shock because…? Expect to see more people fail to pay for their coverage. Just because the goal is to give everyone health care does not mean they will be able to afford it.
Once the “young invincibles” continue to drop out and be negligent on their coverage payments, expect the famed and feared death spiral.
“…requiring insures to expand their provider networks and allowing patients to keep non-compliant health plans for an additional two years could harm insurers and raise prices on the exchanges.”
Doing this will please patients, but will be at the detriment of Obamacare. They keep extending these terms, prolonging ObamaCare’s effects, but it could hurt in the long run.
“has added powerful new doubts about the value of the screening test for women of any age.”
Interesting how many measures are taken for preventative screenings, yet they could not be as effective as we once thought they were.