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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (70208)4/24/2014 12:47:39 PM
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Medicaid signups are pretty meaningless in terms of reporting Obamacare numbers. Because

1 - Some of the signups are people who were already eligible and just didn't sign up. They would be signed up if anything happened.

2 - One of the major points behind wanting to have a certain number of people signed up was to get relatively young and health people paying in to the insurance policies on the exchanges so that those policies don't require much higher premiums going forward or even fall in to a "death spiral". Medicaid does nothing about this. More people in Medicaid doesn't affect those policies at all, and to the extent it has a fiscal effect its a negative fiscal effect.
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