Charles Gaba has been going to painstaking efforts to show the trajectory of health law sign-ups over the past three months. His graph (which is better viewed here, on his Web site) gives a helpful visual sense of what the last month has looked like for health-care enrollment. This uses all available data, including the monthly, federal reports and more up-to-date state data, too. [...]By Gaba's count, we're at 5.75 million sign-ups, between those who have enrolled in private plans and those who have qualified for the Medicaid program. The balance still tips toward public plan enrollments, but, as the chart cautions, this is still preliminary data. If we do see a similar December enrollment spike among the federally run state markets, that will be a pretty quick turn-around from October's dismal showing. If not, though, that's going to make the next three months of open enrollment, which runs until March 31, all the more crucial.
with numbers like this and rising will republicans still try to sell their abomination of a train wreck propaganda rants that seem not to have worked as well as the thought kinda like most all of their plans to derail health care, will be interesting to see how they spend this one especially with their defiant leaders signed up too.
And the Associated Press reminds us that a shaky rollout doesn't mean the whole program is doomed:President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced heavy skepticism with his launch of Social Security in 1935-37. Turbulence also rocked subsequent key presidential initiatives, including Lyndon Johnson's rollout of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, Richard Nixon's Supplemental Security Income program in 1974 and George W. Bush's Medicare prescription drugs program in 2006.Yet these programs today are enormously popular with recipients.
you can believe the misinformation by the republicans or take a look at history, they ignored it it will repeat ObamaCares will be as successful as the other big social programs if not better. we know the mistakes made with the other plans SS, Medicare so as long as the republicans are not allowed to muck it up we should be able to avoid some of the pitfalls that befell the others
