Westhill Consulting Insurance – Connecticut learns less is more with state health insurance website
Connecticut learns less is more with state health
insurance website
Tuesday, November 12, statistics put out by
Connecticut demonstrate that its website is the only one to sign up more folks
for private insurance than for Medicaid.
Angel Medina, 21, went to talk to an Affordable
Health Care act navigator in Hartford. Medina was dropped from his mother's
health insurance two years ago.
"I have really bad
eyes. I like to get them checked often, but since I don't have health
insurance, no doctor's going to really want to take a look at me," he
said.
He found out that he may
qualify for Medicaid, which was long-drawn-out under Obamacare.
So far, 9,123 have enrolled
over Connecticut's ultimate goal is to sign up 275,000 people.
Kevin Counihan, chief
executive officer of Connecticut's health exchange, says he's not discouraged
by the number of people signing up for private health insurance.
"Buying health
insurance is expensive and it's expensive and it's confusing and it's
complicated. So no, I am not disappointed by it. However, we clearly have a
strong goal to meet by March," he said.
Counihan look forward to
have 100,000 people enrolled by the end of March. He credits the state's computer system with
the smooth even out.
"Number one is, less
is more. Do fewer things well than try to do more things inconsistently. Two is
test the heck out of the system and make sure that before you go live, you are
pretty darn confident that you know what is going to happen. And three is hire
the best people that you can," he said.
Counihan was implicated
with Massachusetts' health insurance rollout in 2006. He says that taught him people don't buy
insurance like they do a book or car.
They usually consider the options an average of 18n times before making
up their minds.
He foresees a sprint of
people signing up between Thanksgiving and Dec. 15, which in case is the
deadline for coverage beginning on Jan. 1.
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