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By Alphapundit, Apr. 8, 2014, HotAir.com
A caveat right off the bat: RAND’s
estimate only runs through March 28 whereas the actual deadline for
signing up was March 31st. Given the crush of traffic on Healthcare.gov in late
March, many more people could have signed up over those last three days than
were captured by these numbers. On the other hand, the White House was claiming
six million sign-ups as of March
27. There’s no way to reconcile that with RAND’s data.
One of them is wrong. Maybe both, in fact.
There’s a big spike in Medicaid, just as everyone expected.
There’s a less big but still seven-digit drop in coverage on the individual
market, as people discovered that if you like your plan, you might not be able
to keep it. There’s not quite four million sign-ups on the new ObamaCare
exchanges, not seven million and change like Obama insisted in the Rose Garden.
And then there’s that eye-popping “ESI” category. That’s “employer-sponsored
insurance,” the sort of coverage that 100 million people already have through
their jobs. Er, why would eight million people have suddenly gained that type
of coverage last year when the U.S. labor force assuredly didn’t expand by
eight million? Good question. Says RAND:
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