Friday, May 6, 2011

Enrollment Statistics Show High-Risk Pool Failure

Further to my post on poor high-risk pool enrollment from yesterday, the updated enrollment statistics are now online.  A total of 18,313 individuals were enrolled in federal high-risk pools as of March 31.  To put this number in perspective, only six states have more than 1000 enrollees, while 16 have fewer than 100.  The District of Columbia has only 15 individuals with pre-existing conditions participating, and North Dakota has but six.

Remember:  In January the Administration claimed that up to 129 million non-elderly Americans “have some type of pre-existing health condition.”  Today’s announcement shows that the $2.6 trillion health care law has provided coverage to .014% of the individuals HHS claims have pre-existing conditions.