{"id":21792,"date":"2014-11-10T19:07:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21792"},"modified":"2014-11-10T19:07:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:07:45","slug":"hhs-reduces-obamacare-2015-enrollment-prediction-by-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21792\/hhs-reduces-obamacare-2015-enrollment-prediction-by-30\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Reduces ObamaCare 2015 Enrollment Prediction by 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, the Obama administration threw out a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate that ObamaCare would have 13 million enrollees by February 15, 2015. It also discarded a CBO forecast that the controversial health law would have 25 million enrollees by 2017.<\/p>\n

Instead, the federal department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said a more likely scenario would be between 9 and 9.9 million by mid-February \u2013 a reduction of 30% from CBO\u2019s calculations. As for 2017 totals, HHS will not commit to any numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reduced projection is due to recent data showing \u2018mixed evidence\u2019 about how quickly \u2013 and how dramatically \u2013 people will shift from employer-sponsored health insurance and non-ObamaCare plans into insurance plans sold on government-run marketplaces such as HealthCare.gov,\u201d reports CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What HHS isn\u2019t saying is how the Obama administration playing politics with statutorily mandated deadlines has fouled up ObamaCare\u2019s implementation timetable. Originally, CBO and others could reasonably anticipate quick and dramatic shifts onto ObamaCare plans because the employer mandate made it financially smart to dump workers onto the exchanges and pay a relatively small fine.<\/p>\n

But fearing a voter backlash at such a quick and dramatic change, the Obama administration has delayed implementing the employer mandate at least three times. It now isn\u2019t scheduled to go into effect until 2017 \u2013 the first year after <\/em>President Barack Obama is out of office.<\/p>\n

According to an HHS report, \u201cthere is considerable uncertainty that a large shift will occur over the new two years\u201d, which, \u201ccontributes to an analysis that the ramp up to 25 million will take more than three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, thanks to politically motivated regulators, no one knows when, or if, ObamaCare will meet its most important benchmark \u2013 sustainable enrollment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, the Obama administration threw out a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate that ObamaCare would have 13 million enrollees by February 15, 2015. It also discarded a CBO forecast that the controversial health law would have 25 million enrollees by 2017. Instead, the federal department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said a more […]<\/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":[4606,3308,186,1829,35,300,2594],"class_list":["post-21792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4606","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-regulation","tag-rule-of-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21792","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=21792"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21802,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21792\/revisions\/21802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}