Political Wire: Healthcare Plan Enrollment Surges in Some States

[flpoljunkie]

November 19, 2013

Healthcare Plan Enrollment Surges in Some States

"Despite the disastrous rollout of the federal government's healthcare website, enrollment is surging in many states as tens of thousands of consumers sign up for insurance plans made available by President Obama's health law," the Los Angeles Times reports.

"A number of states that use their own systems, including California, are on track to hit enrollment targets for 2014 because of a sharp increase in November... The growing enrollment in those states is a rare bit of good news for backers of the Affordable Care Act and suggests that the serious problems with the law's rollout may not be fatal, despite critics' renewed calls for repeal."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/11/19/healthcare_plan_enrollment_surges_in_some_states.html

[StarrGazerr]

1. Wait Till Next Year

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The website problems are transitory and in a few months will be forgotten. But the millions of people in the Red States who can't get Medicaid because their Republican "leaders" would rather attack the President than help the people they were elected to help aren't going to forget who it was that denied them the medical coverage they need. 2014 is looking better every day.

[JoePhilly]

2. Exactly. nt

[karynnj]

3. I agree and welcome to DU

I'm actually LESS convinced that the hole in the plan created by not expanding Medicaid will be correctly laid at the feet of the Republican Governor/legislature. I have seen posts here from red state liberal DU members, who DO blame the Republicans, but the situation they fall in is awful. They get no help at all - while people with slightly more income get subsidies and people with less get Medicaid. (They do have low enough income that they do not pay the mandate penalty, but that does not give them healthcare!)

Many in those states may not know that they are in the group that would have gotten Medicaid - and they would have had no premiums. Unless there is an effort to insure that they know that their state REFUSED federal money to provide this, what they may see is that for them, ACA was useless.

We do not have the Republican echo chamber, but we NEED these people to know the truth - especially in states that are purple in federal elections.

[flpoljunkie]

4. I think the president needs to do more explaining why they are falling thru the cracks

[karynnj]

5. Exactly - I wonder if the timing will be after the computer system is working

It could be great if expressed as a call for them to lobby their state to expand it.