First of all, this is a deeply silly chart. There is zero good reason to plot it this way other than to make “news”.
Second, the majority of Americans who get healthcare through their employer have 45 day or shorter signup periods. My spouse and I both work and we had 2 weeks each (with zero overlap). If we can get it done others can get it done in 45 days. 90 days might have made sense the first year when this was all new but makes little sense now.
The problem with sign-ups (if there turns out to be one) will be lack of outreach and policy FUD driving higher premiums.
So in other words, as long as the rate of enrollment per week continues larger than previous years but less than double, fewer people will end up enrolled? Pretty much what trump’s people planned. And then they’ll be able to claim reduced public support.
The chart doesn’t really tell you much. At this point (50-60% enrollment period elapsed), previous years showed a plateau. It could be the same plateau this year, but we really do not know- we need a few more data points for 2018. However, the rate of enrollment is declining, so it may be unlikely that 7 M will enroll total. Also, we just went through a National Holiday when enrollments are likely to be slack.
Not house on fire stuff until we see more data.
Proof you can make statistics, charts, graphs, etc. say whatever you want, how about the pure numbers and we can figure it outselves.
Generally, people pile in at the last moment, whether they are given 45 days or a 100 days. When we were in college, my wife was the only one who got her term papers done two weeks before the end of the term, and slept like a baby on the night before finals.
What concerns me about the last-minute thing is that the termination of almost all outreach may leave a lot of people unaware of when the deadline is. And it they think it’s the same as last year they’ll be SOL. And if there’s a ridiculously large number trying to sign up on the last day (when media finally get around to mentioning that the signup period has be cut short) there’s a fair chance the federal site will fail under load and you don’t want to see the litigation over whether the period should be extended.
Drumpf: I am already winning. The Kenyan without a birth certificate will never give us Black Care.
Well duhhhh, someone actually gets paid to write this?? With a concentrated effort to bring it down from this joke of a fake liar in chief to and equally useless GOP led Congress. It’s more popular now because it’s been in the news, kind of a pointless article.