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Meet The Obamacare Enrollment Truthers
SOPHIA TESFAYE
March 31, 2014
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Los Angeles Times' Hiltzik: "The Most Encouraging Figures Don't Come From The Federal Government At All, but From States With Their Own Enrollment Programs." In a March 31 post, Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik explained that accusations of the White House "cooking the books" ignore the fact that many people enrolled through state-based exchanges and not the federally-run HealthCare.gov:
Meet The Obamacare Enrollment Truthers
SOPHIA TESFAYE
March 31, 2014
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Los Angeles Times' Hiltzik: "The Most Encouraging Figures Don't Come From The Federal Government At All, but From States With Their Own Enrollment Programs." In a March 31 post, Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik explained that accusations of the White House "cooking the books" ignore the fact that many people enrolled through state-based exchanges and not the federally-run HealthCare.gov:
What makes this claim particularly fatuous is that the most encouraging figures don't come from the federal government at all, but from states with their own enrollment programs. The eight states with the best records of signing up their eligible citizens in exchange plans (actually seven states and D.C.), all have their own exchanges and websites. Vermont leads the parade at 83% enrolled. California, which leads all states in number of exchange enrollees at more than 1 million, ranks fourth with a 41% outreach rate.
If the feds are cooking the books, they've cooked them to look worse, not better -- the 36 states that dumped their enrollment responsibilities on the federal government are clustered at the bottom of the list, most of them with enrollment rates of 20% or less of eligible citizens. Many of these are states that actively discouraged or interfered with enrollments of their citizens in health insurance plans -- behavior that should be grounds for impeachment or recall of their governors and legislators. [Los Angeles Times, 3/31/14]
.If the feds are cooking the books, they've cooked them to look worse, not better -- the 36 states that dumped their enrollment responsibilities on the federal government are clustered at the bottom of the list, most of them with enrollment rates of 20% or less of eligible citizens. Many of these are states that actively discouraged or interfered with enrollments of their citizens in health insurance plans -- behavior that should be grounds for impeachment or recall of their governors and legislators. [Los Angeles Times, 3/31/14]
