The ACA numbers are as misleading as the unemployment rate which doesn't take into account the lowest labor participation in many decades. They have to keep the number breakdown a secret, like how the ACA was written and sold to the public. If we are told the truth, that the majority of those enrollees already had insurance, or that the young and healthy are not buying in as they hoped, the law will fail at an even faster rate.
And think about this, 15-20% of enrollees haven't made a premium payment yet. If premiums rise considerably (that would be a good bet), how many young healthy people will stop paying their premiums when money gets tight? Will they give up a car payment or cell phone instead? I doubt it. The lack of foresight by these clueless amateurs is fascinating and scary at the same time. This is going to be a slow motion trainwreck for years.
navycpo7 wrote: that 7.1 million is very misleading.
I want to see the breakdown of that numer.
How many have paid the premiums to actually have the insurance
How many lost their insurance due to obamacare and then signed up on obamacare to have insurance
There are other figures that go into this that need to be put out.
Think Amazon doesn't know how many books they sold this month and how many people have paid up on the books they bought?
Think your cable company doesn't know exactly how many haven't paid last month?
How can the same people who run the NSA not know how many have paid in?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
1) You shut down the gub'mnt, stamped your feet and turned blue because you couldn't repeal it.
2) You spent weeks in the echo-chamber crying about how the shaky startup of the website spelled disaster.
3) You cried when the concerted teabagger/KochBros effort to persuade people NOT to enroll in it didn't work.
4) And now that the numbers are in, it must be a "conspiracy"...
God, I love the clown-car... They can lie their heads off, and truth/reality are never part of the equation. And when they lose, they go down protesting that they'll still "repeal it"... (And replace it with what?)
Looking forward to you telling all those people that now have non-cancellable, cheaper, insurance that you want to take it away, and leave them with......nothing.
All that energy--just to cry some more that people shouldn't have insurance.
Libs are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.
Just look at the VP.
So what would make you think someone who voted for the current idiot is any brighter? They believe what they are told, and will go to the pit kneel and kiss their executioner when asked to.