You are not insured UNTIL YOU PAY.
As of March 1 about 4.2 million Americans had signed up for medical insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Obama administration.
But it remains unclear how many of those enrollees have put their money where their mouse is.
Combined figures published by Obamacare marketplaces in California, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington indicate that
just 79 per cent of signups in those states have come with checks attached.
If those numbers were to hold up nationally,
it would mean that about 1.1 million Obamacare enrollees have selected insurance plans without paying for them – bringing the actual total of Obamacare-insured Americans down to 3.3 million.
The Newark Star-Ledger reported in late February that 'at least three-quarters' of plans sold by three insurers in New Jersey have been paid for.
February brought 943,000 new people into the Obamacare fold, bringing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services
60 per cent of the way to the Department of Health and Human Services' original goal of enrolling 7 million Americans by the end of March.HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters on a conference call Tuesday that the administration expects a March surge to close the gap.
Last month she backed off from the prediction of 7 million new insurance customers, saying the new target was 6 million. The 4.2 million total is 70 per cent of that lower benchmark number.
CMS manages health insurance exchanges for 14 states and the District of Columbia.
All together, the seven states where both enrollment and payment numbers have been published have signed up
1.05 million people, but reported that just 835,000 have paid premiums.More troubling for the Obama administration is a survey published last week by the consultancy McKinsey & Co., which found that
only 27 per cent of new enrollees – or 1.14 million of the total announced Tuesday – were uninsured before they signed up.
Adding insult to injury, a Gallup poll released Monday shows that while the percentage of uninsured Americans has dropped from 17.1 per cent at the end of 2013 to just
15.9 per cent now, that number stood at just 14.4 per cent before Obama took office.
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