80%

[Quantum Windbag]

Why 80%? Probably because that is the best they can hope for.

The Obama administration will consider the new federal insurance marketplace a success if 80 percent of users can buy health-care plans online, according to government and industry officials familiar with the project. The goal for how many people should be able to make it through the insurance exchange is an internal target that administration officials have not made public. It acknowledges that as many as one in five Americans who try to use the Web site to buy insurance will be unable to do so.
The measure is the first concrete performance standard in the 31/2 years since the government began to design the health exchange, and was defined by a group of federal officials and technical experts in late October. It is now guiding the work of hundreds of government employees and contractors racing to try to repair the balky Web site by the administration’s Nov. 30 deadline.
Whether the government meets the benchmark — and whether the public regards it as adequate — will be a central factor in President Obama’s efforts to increase support for the controversial health-care law and lure customers to the federal insurance marketplace.

HealthCare.gov goal is for 80% of users to be able to enroll for insurance - The Washington Post

Rough estimate: If we assume an 80% compliance rate, and then an 80% success rate, and we start with 45 million uninsured, we end up insuring 64% of the uninsured population, and leave roughly 16,000,000 without insurance.

 

[HenryBHough]

Pareto principle.

AKA the 80/20 rule.

In business it means that 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers.

What most businesses fail to comprehend is that 80% of your grief comes from 20% of your customers. When you drill down on the stats you find out there are some customers with whom you cannot afford to do business at all no matter how much business they're giving you.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Why 80%? Probably because that is the best they can hope for.

The Obama administration will consider the new federal insurance marketplace a success if 80 percent of users can buy health-care plans online, according to government and industry officials familiar with the project. The goal for how many people should be able to make it through the insurance exchange is an internal target that administration officials have not made public. It acknowledges that as many as one in five Americans who try to use the Web site to buy insurance will be unable to do so.
The measure is the first concrete performance standard in the 31/2 years since the government began to design the health exchange, and was defined by a group of federal officials and technical experts in late October. It is now guiding the work of hundreds of government employees and contractors racing to try to repair the balky Web site by the administration’s Nov. 30 deadline.
Whether the government meets the benchmark — and whether the public regards it as adequate — will be a central factor in President Obama’s efforts to increase support for the controversial health-care law and lure customers to the federal insurance marketplace.

HealthCare.gov goal is for 80% of users to be able to enroll for insurance - The Washington Post

Rough estimate: If we assume an 80% compliance rate, and then an 80% success rate, and we start with 45 million uninsured, we end up insuring 64% of the uninsured population, and leave roughly 16,000,000 without insurance.

if they new Dean they would have said 90%.....

 

[dblack]

Because Liz Fowler said so.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Why 80%? Probably because that is the best they can hope for.

The Obama administration will consider the new federal insurance marketplace a success if 80 percent of users can buy health-care plans online, according to government and industry officials familiar with the project. The goal for how many people should be able to make it through the insurance exchange is an internal target that administration officials have not made public. It acknowledges that as many as one in five Americans who try to use the Web site to buy insurance will be unable to do so.
The measure is the first concrete performance standard in the 31/2 years since the government began to design the health exchange, and was defined by a group of federal officials and technical experts in late October. It is now guiding the work of hundreds of government employees and contractors racing to try to repair the balky Web site by the administration’s Nov. 30 deadline.
Whether the government meets the benchmark — and whether the public regards it as adequate — will be a central factor in President Obama’s efforts to increase support for the controversial health-care law and lure customers to the federal insurance marketplace.

HealthCare.gov goal is for 80% of users to be able to enroll for insurance - The Washington Post

Rough estimate: If we assume an 80% compliance rate, and then an 80% success rate, and we start with 45 million uninsured, we end up insuring 64% of the uninsured population, and leave roughly 16,000,000 without insurance.

if they new Dean they would have said 90%.....

They wanted to say 6%.