ObamaCare Fails its Primary Objective!

If the Affordable Care Act is as successful as President Obama insists it is then why does his administration still refuse to release an enrollment figure for the number of qualified healthcare plans sold to the long term uninsured through the state and federal healthcare exchanges?

HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell is all too eager to boast the number of low income individuals who have taken advantage of FREE Medicaid through the expansion put forth in the ObamaCare law.  However, since their launch back in October of 2013, not once has this administration made available to the public the number of long term uninsured individuals who purchased a healthcare plan through one of state and federal healthcare exchanges.  In fact, the folks over at HHS has taken painstaking measure to ensure that this figure could not be sifted out of other enrollment data that they make public.

At the passage of the president’s namesake healthcare reform law, the size of the pool of the uninsured individuals who were qualified to purchase a healthcare plan through the healthcare exchanges was double the size of those who qualified for the Medicaid expansion.  Yet, due to embarrassingly low enrollment figures, the Obama Administration all but denies that this large group of uninsured individuals even exists.  You will not hear anyone in the Obama Administration speak of this sub-set of the uninsured and the number of long term uninsured individuals who have purchase a healthcare plan  through the state and federal healthcare exchanges is a number the administration will certainly not put in writing.  Insuring this large group of uninsured individuals is the primary objective of the entire healthcare law, making healthcare insurance attractive enough for them to do so has been the laws greatest failure.

At the current rate of enrollment, by the end of the decade the healthcare exchanges will fall no less than 14 million short of their original 24 million enrollment goal.  This will raise the number of individuals left uninsured from the Obama Administrations projection of 30 million to over 44 million.
 
And Democrats dare to call this a success?

With such a massive failure of the key provision in the law, one would think that Democrats would be the ones in the front of the line calling for its repeal and replacement.  It’s there law and it has done significantly more harm than it has done good and has no chance of ever improving.