So where did that miraculous "surge" in Obamafail enrollees come from?

[Adam]

It might have come from data that they just lifted from state databases.

And then used to create applications without the applicant's knowledge or consent.

In the closing days of the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was mailing out letters notifying certain Americans that they had already started a healthcare coverage application on their behalf.

The HHS letter stated that the information they used to begin the application for individual Healthcare was obtain by the state agency in charge of implementing Obamacare.

The next step for the individual would be visit Healthcare.gov and complete the already started application to see if they qualify for “Marketplace coverage.”

News of the HHS letter was first mentioned by a listener of the popular “Daybreak with Drew Steele” Show on Fox 92.5, which is out of Fort Myers, Florida.

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That's certainly one way to create a bunch of new "enrollees:" just sign them up whether they like it or not!

[scott]

I called this last month. There was a huge push for Navigators to fan out to get people to apply and pick a plan (without following up to have the premiums paid) and when that wasn't working I told my colleagues that they would just start auto-enrolling people.

Amazing.

[Gingersnap]

Why does this sound like one of those....

"You may have already won X gajillion dollars...."?