Patients pour on to successful state insurance exchanges

[TomCADem]

More news that you will rarely see on Cable News or network TV:

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/patients-pour-successful-state-insurance-exchanges-2D11770338

People are flocking to the more successful state health insurance exchanges in the final days before a late-December deadline, exchange directors said Wednesday.


So many people are calling in for help that states have had to beef up call center staffing, and insurers have agreed to let deadlines slide a bit so that as many people as possible can get coverage starting Jan 1.

In just five states – California, Connecticut, Kentucky, New York and Washington – more than 436,000 people are signed up for health insurance – more than in the 36 states covered by the federal exchange. But the directors of the five exchanges say what’s happening in their states reflects much of what is going on nationwide – people want health insurance being offered by the Affordable Care Act.

“We are seeing huge interest,” said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California. “In the first week of December we had 50,000 pick a plan in Covered California. That’s an average of 7,000 a day.” Last week, Lee says, 15,000 people a day were signing up for insurance in California. New York is enrolling 4,500 people a day, Lisa Sbrana, counsel to the New York exchange, said.

[Brigid]

1. And meanwhile, here in IN . . .

No expansion of Medicaid, and no state exchange. The GOP in this state should never be forgiven for this. Never.