Only One-In-Four Obamacare Enrollees Returning To Sign Up Again
By Robert Gehl, December 26, 2014.
The Obama Administration is touting how many people are enrolling for Obamacare again this year, but the numbers they’re not touting are how few “returning customers” they have.
As of Dec. 12, only one-in-four 2014 Obamacare enrollees have returned to the website to sign up for 2015.
The Daily Caller reports:
The administration has been trying to prompt customers to return to HealthCare.gov and pick a new health care plan all over again, because premiums for existing plans are rising at a faster rate than offerings from newcomers without a customer base. Customers surprised by double-digit rate hikes could end up not being able to afford their policies and even dropping out.
Panic over inactive customers and this year’s rate hikes even led the administration to propose giving HHS the power to change customers’ plans to the lowest-cost option all on its own — which would immediately raise problems with covered services, doctor and hospital networks and drug coverage.
But while it’ll likely create a lot of unwanted surprises for Obamacare customers, the autoenrollment policy is also keeping several million extra sign-ups in the administration’s enrollment tally.
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/only-one-in-four-obamacare-enrollees-returning-to-sign-up-again/
