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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (35802)4/12/2014 6:08:01 PM
From: i-node   of 42652
 
There seems to be some conflating of "Medicare" with "Medicaid" in that article. It looks like they really mean Medicaid, not Medicare.

Surely, you're going to have some number of people sign up for Medicaid just because the income level for qualification was increased. But there is a long history of Medicaid eligibles not being enrolled. This is particularly true because Medicaid typically involves frequent re-enrollment. I've seen Medicaid eligibility listings that have 20 or more different enrollment periods. If you make it so these people can enroll without having to visit an office and provides substantiation of qualification, how can you NOT add 2.6 million or more?

Bottom line is that counting Medicaids, ACA generated 5 million purportedly new enrollments. That is worse than weak, it is pathetic, given the sacrifice we as a country are making.
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