{"id":19942,"date":"2014-01-15T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19942"},"modified":"2014-01-16T17:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T22:08:16","slug":"more-women-than-men-signing-up-for-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19942\/more-women-than-men-signing-up-for-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"More Women than Men Signing Up for ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303595404579320730569737964 \" target=\"_blank\">James Taranto<\/a> draws attention to an adverse selection problem revealed by the newest federal Obamacare enrollment numbers: More women than men are signing up for health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The gap between women and men enrollees is troublesome for President Obama\u2019s signature law because women, on average, consume more health services than men. That higher rate of spending drives up the cost of future premiums for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, women are a larger percentage of the population than men, so as long as the ratio on the federal exchange mirrors the ratio in the population, all should be well.<\/p>\n<p>Except that current enrollment numbers \u2013 54% women to 46% men \u2013 don\u2019t mirror the population (where adult women outnumber adult men by a slight 50.3%).<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse. \u201cA 54% to 46% enrollment difference means that only 85.2 males are enrolled in Obamacare for every 100 females,\u201d writes Taranto. Put simply, \u201cObamacare is missing more than 13 men for every 100 women who\u2019ve signed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obamacare needs more men in its exchange pool just like it needs more young and healthy people \u2013 to pay for others with higher rates of health spending (i.e. women and older people, respectively). That the federal exchange is failing to attract people to pay more for coverage they don\u2019t need is proof that everyday Americans aren\u2019t the sheep central planners envision.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Taranto draws attention to an adverse selection problem revealed by the newest federal Obamacare enrollment numbers: More women than men are signing up for health insurance. The gap between women and men enrollees is troublesome for President Obama\u2019s signature law because women, on average, consume more health services than men. That higher rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4438,3007,1829,35],"class_list":["post-19942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-adverse-selection","tag-exchange","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19942"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19966,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19942\/revisions\/19966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}