After troubled rollout, Obamacare's new test starts on New Year's Day

Oberon · 12-31-13, 01:43 PM

AVGWarhawk · 12-31-13, 01:58 PM

Great article but useless. Needs to break it down by the numbers.

Medicaid?
Subsidized?
Non-subsidized?

If the overwhelming majority of sign up is Medicaid then the program is still screwed. I suspect this to be the case.

Gerald · 12-31-13, 02:10 PM

Probably too early to tell the outcome of this, wait six months or so to get into statistics and other relevant information.

AVGWarhawk · 12-31-13, 02:34 PM

It really is not to early. The overwhelming number of sign up(auto-enrolled) for the state of Maryland is 101k. http://www.enrollamerica.org/blog/20...-medicaid-pac/ These are people on Medicaid. Free healthcare. I suspect we will see the same result in all states. The program cannot sustain itself with a majority of non-payers. Without the hard numbers the article from Reuters is misleading to what some would see as a success for the program when in fact the program is failing to pay for itself as predicted (or hoodwink the young healthy to pay for it all).

Jimbuna · 12-31-13, 02:38 PM

@Jamie

@Chris

Gerald · 12-31-13, 02:40 PM

Maybe,Reuters was not the best source in this case.

AVGWarhawk · 12-31-13, 03:47 PM

It is the best article today showing how misleading the news can be. If you recall the BO administration was not producing any real numbers. When they did the numbers were sugar coated. No breakdown of the freebie and the payers. It truly is smoke and mirrors.

Jimbuna · 12-31-13, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

It truly is smoke and mirrors.

Something some folk really specialise in

Gerald · 12-31-13, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

It is the best article today showing how misleading the news can be. If you recall the BO administration was not producing any real numbers. When they did the numbers were sugar coated. No breakdown of the freebie and the payers. It truly is smoke and mirrors.

Aye.

12-31-13, 01:58 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,303 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Great article but useless. Needs to break it down by the numbers. Medicaid? Subsidized? Non-subsidized? If the overwhelming majority of sign up is Medicaid then the program is still screwed. I suspect this to be the case. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

12-31-13, 02:10 PM	#3
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Probably too early to tell the outcome of this, wait six months or so to get into statistics and other relevant information. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

12-31-13, 02:34 PM	#4
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,303 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	It really is not to early. The overwhelming number of sign up(auto-enrolled) for the state of Maryland is 101k. http://www.enrollamerica.org/blog/20...-medicaid-pac/ These are people on Medicaid. Free healthcare. I suspect we will see the same result in all states. The program cannot sustain itself with a majority of non-payers. Without the hard numbers the article from Reuters is misleading to what some would see as a success for the program when in fact the program is failing to pay for itself as predicted (or hoodwink the young healthy to pay for it all). __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

12-31-13, 02:38 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,437 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	@Jamie @Chris __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-31-13, 02:40 PM	#6
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Maybe,Reuters was not the best source in this case. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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12-31-13, 03:47 PM	#7
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,303 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	It is the best article today showing how misleading the news can be. If you recall the BO administration was not producing any real numbers. When they did the numbers were sugar coated. No breakdown of the freebie and the payers. It truly is smoke and mirrors. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road