The week, this headline in The Hill shocked me: "ObamaCare enrollment strong in third week of sign-ups." If enrollees have only half the time to sign up, then by pure arithmetic, the daily enrollment pace needs to be double last year's in order for total enrollment at the end of the enrollment period to match the level reach at the end of last year's enrollment period: 12,216,003. Obamacare Exchanges have performed badly since year 1; what is happening in this fifth open enrollment period is merely a continuation of that trend. If instead 2018 final enrollment numbers follow the pattern of last year's open enrollment period, the shortfall would reach 78%. The bottom line is that it is misleading at best and delusional at worst to claim that enrollment in the fifth Obamacare open enrollment period is strong.

Source: Forbes November 25, 2017 03:45 UTC