Board strife as Colorado exchange far behind projected enrollment – The Denver Post.
Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act through Colorado’s health insurance exchange is barely half the state’s worst-case projection, prompting demands from exchange board members for better stewardship of public money.
FYI we’re talking 6,001 enrollments vs a worst case projection of 11,108.
The coup de grace are the closing paragraphs…
The exchange and Medicaid have made some good progress, said board member Steve ErkenBrack, who is head of Rocky Mountain Health Plans in Grand Junction. But, he said, he knows there are many who desperately need to get through to a new policy by Dec. 15.
“This is not a theory for people, this is about real people with real problems, and we need to make sure that transition is as smooth as possible,” he said.
Well of course Steve ErkenBrack, President & CEO of Rocky Mountain Health Plans knows plenty of people who are desperately looking for a plan. Why? BECAUSE he cancelled all Rocky Mountain individual plans issued after March 23rd, 2010. Yes, Steve ErkenBrack is responsible for throwing a large majority of Rocky Mountain Health Plans individual clients to the Obamacare wolves. His other partner in crime is Kaiser which cancelled at least some of their individual plans.
What were the other Colorado individual insurers doing? Anthem BCBS, Assurant Health, Cigna, Humana and United HealthOne were figuring out ways for their clients to stay on their current plans through 2014.
What insurance companies on the Colorado Exchange have 5 stars? You guessed it, Rocky Mountain and Kaiser.
