Kentucky Releases Official ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers for October
Kentucky, a state applauded for properly implementing an online exchange to sign people up for ObamaCare has released the enrollment numbers for the first month of operation.
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Human Services reports that exactly 4,631 people signed up for ObamaCare in October. The demographic makeup of the enrollees as warnings have stated is tilted toward the old as 39% of the people who signed up are over the age of 55. The young and healthy age of under 34 comprised of 24% of the enrollees with the balance of 37% coming from the age group of 35 – 54 year olds.
Kentucky is widely acknowledged as the poster child along with California (data not available) to set up a working website from day one and is seen as a barometer for how the rest of the country will enroll as the pitfalls to entry are purged from the websites.
Early in October the Washington buzz was circulating that Kentucky was signing up 10,000 people per day. That claim was corrected by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear in a media event down to 1,000 per day. When the numbers were tallied at the end of the month the official enrollment numbers had settled to only 4,631 for a first month average of just under 150 people per day.
Using the Kentucky figures to extrapolate to the entire country would indicate that if all of the exchanges had worked as well as Kentucky’s there would have been 347,325 enrollees in ObamaCare that needs 7 million enrollees weighted toward the young and healthy to be sustainable.
Kaiser Health News reports today that 3,747,300 people in America have had their health insurance plans cancelled due to their non-compliance with ObamaCare. Kentucky cancellations made up 130,000 of the 3,747,300 cancellations. At the rate that Kentuckians are signing up it will take 29 months for the signups to replace the cancelled policies.
President Obama infamously pledged: “If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.†Officials worried, though, that delving into details such as the small number of people who might lose insurance could be confusing and would clutter the president’s message.â€
The Wall Street Journal has reported that “some White House policy advisers objected to the breadth of Mr. Obama’s ‘keep your plan’ promise. They were overruled by political aides.â€
So, after stopping, taking deep breaths, and seriously pondering whether President Obama should continue peddling his phony guarantee, Team Obama deliberately decided to hide the truth that millions of Americans would lose their health plans. Instead, they chose to double down on the lies.
The fruits of their grand scheme of deception seem to be playing out very well across the Ohio River in Kentucky where websites work but enrollment numbers for the first month are less that Team Deception’s whisper numbers for a single day.
