U.S. says 7.3 million with Obamacare health plans have paid premiums

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. says 7.3 million with Obamacare health plans have paid premiums

WASHINGTON Thu Sep 18, 2014 1:39pm EDT

(Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday said 7.3 million people were up to date on their monthly premiums for private health plans under President Barack Obama's healthcare law as of Aug. 15.

Republicans have long sought the number of Obamacare enrollees who have paid premiums as potential evidence that the administration's initial enrollment figures were exaggerated.

The figure, which administration officials stressed was not an estimate of actual enrollment, could show that lower-income Obamacare enrollees are proving better than initially expected at retaining private health coverage acquired through new insurance marketplaces set up in all 50 states.

"We are encouraged by the number of consumers who paid their premiums," Marilyn Tavenner, a top U.S. healthcare official, said in testimony before a congressional oversight panel.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/18/us-usa-healthcare-enrollment-idUSKBN0HD27T20140918

[randys1]

1. I enrolled my son who was in dire need of something medical, then I tried to keep making

the monthly payments but in his state after a certain amount of time I couldnt pay his premium on the same site I bought it.

So he is now without but can get the medicaid expansion.

So proud to call myself a Democrat at a time when we had to stand up and be counted, so proud of our democratic members of the house and senate who made this a reality.

Can you imagine still having preexisting exclusions, for instance.

[grahamhgreen]

2. 7.3 million times 20-100 dollars a month.....