Robust Health Insurance Sign-Ups Surprise Supporters And Opponents

[Dulcinea]

A day after President Trump said the Affordable Care Act "has been repealed," officials reported that 8.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage on the federal insurance exchange in 2018 — nearly reaching 2017's number in half the sign-up time.

That total is far from complete. Enrollment is still open in parts of seven states, including Florida and Texas, that use the federal healthcare.gov exchange but were affected by hurricanes earlier this year.

The numbers released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services also did not include those who signed up between midnight Dec. 15 and 3 a.m. ET on Dec. 16, the final deadline for 2018 coverage, as well as those who could not finish enrolling before the deadline and left their phone number for a call back.

And enrollment has not yet closed in 11 states, including California and New York, as well as Washington, D.C., that run their own insurance exchanges. Those states are expected to add several million more enrollees.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/22/572825803/robust-health-insurance-sign-ups-surprise-supporters-and-opponents

[Fred Sanders]

1. Folks want to be healthy and the ACA was written to be virtually sabotage free.

Not to mention any policy today must have minimum standards, so no more junk plans. People see that now, explaining the enrollment and the polling showing this steady approval and rising.
The parallel universe of ACA "failure" is the one that is failing.

[Freddie]

2. Once the mandate is gone

Be prepared to see a lot of junk plans, purchased by folks who earn too much for a subsidy.

[Fred Sanders]

3. The ACA prohibits junk plans by setting the minimum standard of the Bronze plan. That will

not change. The issue is the lost revenue which goes to subsides drying up and plan costs rising.

Can all be fixed once we regain power. The ACA needs to hang in there. I think it will, too many folks have had a taste of it, despite the propaganda and misinformation peddled by those with golden healthcare.

https://www.kff.org/interactive/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-the-publics-views-on-the-aca/