{"id":21280,"date":"2014-08-12T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T22:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2014-08-12T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T22:06:14","slug":"signs-emerge-that-obamacare-enrollment-is-dropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21280\/signs-emerge-that-obamacare-enrollment-is-dropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs Emerge that ObamaCare Enrollment Is Dropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Obama administration\u2019s much celebrated achievement of 8 million ObamaCare enrollments is actually dropping over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nation\u2019s third-largest health insurer [Aetna] had 720,000 people sign up for exchange coverage as of May 20,\u201d writes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/politics\/081114-712602-obamacare-enrollment-falling-aetna-says.htm \" target=\"_blank\">Jed Graham<\/a> of Investor\u2019s Business Daily. \u201cAt the end of June, it had fewer than 600,000 paying customers. Aetna expects that to fall to \u2018just over 500,000\u2019 by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While no other insurance company has publicly reported declines as steep as Aetna, many others have not denied it is happening during recent conference calls discussing earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Some attrition in ObamaCare signups is to be expected since a number of major life events could cause a change in status. Getting a new job with health benefits, for example. But the Obama administration\u2019s refusal to publicize monthly enrollment numbers makes it impossible to get a clear picture of how well the law is working.<\/p>\n<p>Which may be precisely the goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Obama administration\u2019s much celebrated achievement of 8 million ObamaCare enrollments is actually dropping over time. \u201cThe nation\u2019s third-largest health insurer [Aetna] had 720,000 people sign up for exchange coverage as of May 20,\u201d writes Jed Graham of Investor\u2019s Business Daily. \u201cAt the end of June, it had fewer than 600,000 paying [&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":[4440,3007,3308,1829,35,306],"class_list":["post-21280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-enrollment","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280","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=21280"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21288,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions\/21288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}