{"id":21532,"date":"2014-09-22T18:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T22:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21532"},"modified":"2014-09-22T18:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T22:49:52","slug":"obamacare%e2%80%99s-7-3-million-enrollments-may-be-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21532\/obamacare%e2%80%99s-7-3-million-enrollments-may-be-false\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare\u2019s 7.3 Million Enrollments May be False"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Obama administration released its first official headcount of ObamaCare enrollments since applauding itself for 8 million initial sign-ups.<\/p>\n<p>The current enrollment is 7.3 million, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s reason to be suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder ObamaCare, after a person has paid their first premium, a health plan can\u2019t cancel anyone until they have gone three months without making a payment,\u201d writes health care policy expert <a href=\"http:\/\/healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/the-73-million.html \" target=\"_blank\">Bob Laszewski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By saying that the 7.3 million number includes all enrollments that have occurred through mid-August, CMS is \u201ceffectively double counting by including the \u2018adds\u2019 while also keeping the \u2018deletes\u2019.\u201d That means the 7.3 figure \u201calso still includes every person who has failed to make a premium payment in June, July, and August \u2013 since the carriers can\u2019t yet knock them off the rolls,\u201d explains Laszewski. \u201cThe health plans tell me there is a 2% to 4% monthly attrition rate. That means the 7.3 million could be overstated by 6% to 12% of the total.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately,<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/283335-obama-this-is-the-most-transparent-administration-in-history\" target=\"_blank\"> the most transparent administration in history <\/a>refuses to release the monthly enrollment numbers since ObamaCare went online. That makes it impossible to verify whether the 7.3 million is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>If the Obama administration is so proud of its new number, why not release the data on which it\u2019s based?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Obama administration released its first official headcount of ObamaCare enrollments since applauding itself for 8 million initial sign-ups. The current enrollment is 7.3 million, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). But there\u2019s reason to be suspicious. \u201cUnder ObamaCare, after a person has paid their first premium, a health [&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":[3007,3308,1829,35],"class_list":["post-21532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532","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=21532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21538,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532\/revisions\/21538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}