- Gov. auditors signed up 17 out of 18 fake ObamaCare enrollees for coverage through federal and state exchanges, a report released in October.
- The GAO sent 10 auditors with fictitious enrollment information to the federal healthcare.gov site as well as two state-run ObamaCare exchanges, to sign up.
- While eight didn't make it through the initial identity-checking process, all 10 eventually obtained coverage, even though four obviously had made up Social Security numbers that started with "000."
- They all were able to keep their coverage despite filing fake follow-up documentation.
- In addition, the GAO tried to sign up 8 more up for Medicaid coverage. 3 made it through the process, and 4 ended up getting taxpayer subsidized private coverage instead.
Obamacare's Woeful Enrollment and Rising Loss Ratios will Force a Rewrite to Survive.
- There are about 9.1 million enrollees today, and the consensus estimate—by the Congressional Budget Office, the Medicare actuary and independent analysts like Rand Corp.—was that participation would surge to some 20 million. But HHS now expects enrollment to grow to between merely 9.4 million and 11.4 million.
- For every person who’s subsidized to join and has, two people haven’t.
- The law’s failure to appeal to the young and rising middle class is already cascading through the insurance markets.
- Most employer plan increase are between 8% and 13% (at least 3% of that is due to Obamacare taxes and fees). Aetna has requested all small employers in California pay 27.4% more in 2016.
- Most Obamacare plan are going up 10% to 50%.
- Overall, insurers providing Obamacare plans lost 12% in 2014 despite a $7.9 billion taxpayer handout.
- And this weak enrollment is true even though, in CA for example, taxpayers pay 75% of premium for Obamacare recipients. Families making up to $96K qualify for the handouts.
Patients Now Avoiding Care Because of the High Deductibles and Meager Doc Lists Made Popular by Obamacare. A new survey of emergency room physicians suggests that many who have insurance are still avoiding care because of their insurance plan's high out-of-pocket costs.
- The poll of 1,433 ER doctors by the American Academy of Emergency Physicians found that 70% of ER doctors reported treating patients who have health insurance but have forgone necessary medical care due to cost.
- The study also revealed a troubling pattern in which patients end up in the ER because they can't find non-emergency doctors to treat them.
- According to the poll, 80 percent of ER doctors report treating patients who said they were having trouble finding relevant specialists included in their health plan.
- Similarly, 73 percent report seeing increased numbers of Medicaid patients in the ER because insurers weren't providing enough primary care physicians or specialists.
- Retiring in Idaho only takes 40% of the cash that's required to retire in California. $1M vs. $400K (savings required in addition to Social Security for a 65 year old to retire).
