[quote=utcsox][quote=SK in CV][quote=bearishgurl]In reality, CC does not exist to place individuals and families in plans they like (or can live with) who are willing to pay the monthly premium for. CC does not care if it signed up 1M enrollees into “marketplace plans” or just 200K. CC exists solely to gather financial information from its unsuspecting enrollees to be culled and re-culled from month to month and year to year for possible forced Medi-Cal placement. [/quote]
1.7 million Californians purchased qualified healthcare plans on the exchange.[/quote]
I think 1.7 million is the goal. Total registration is at 1.575 million according to this article below:
Preliminary Obamacare enrollment data released Thursday shows that California may have lost its top spot to Florida, which reported about 1.7 million sign-ups through Monday compared with about 1.5 million in the Golden State.
According to an estimate released on June 30 of last year, Covered California, the state’s health insurance exchange, had about 78,000 more enrollees than Florida before Obamacare’s third open enrollment period started on Nov. 1. Both states entered the latest sign-up season with more than 1.3 million enrolled residents.
A Covered California spokesman said one possible reason for Florida’s enrollment surge since Nov. 1 was its decision not to expand Medicaid. That means some people who enrolled in Florida’s health exchange would have qualified for the already-expanded Medicaid program in California, which is called Medi-Cal.
(emphasis mine)
DUH!
Last year, I HAD considered “retiring” to a state which did NOT adopt Medicaid expansion after I found myself constantly hassled by CC and Medi-Cal to “prove and re-prove my income.” But I was worried that the state I moved to could adopt expanded Medicaid in the future and I would be right back in the same place that I started (back when I lived in Cali).
Choosing a state for “retirement purposes” simply because they don’t currently have “expanded Medicaid” is one sorry azz reason to feel like you have to move in order to keep a healthplan and not have to worry if it will be taken away from you behind your back after you already paid your premiums!
