ACA Signups: Relapse, Hearing, Payments + Updates

The shingles attack that brainwrap has been suffering from has apparently gotten into one eye. He is pulling back on reporting the numbers again, so we only have one number so far today.

Update: No he isn't. He felt well enough to make several more postings, which I will cover tomorrow. The hearing coverage below is plenty for today.

C-SPAN3 coverage of the Sylvia Burwell confirmation hearing as HHS Secretary starts at 9:30 AM ET/6:30 PT. I will watch and report.

Update: It was tame. Full coverage below.

And yes, again, they paid, at 83-90% according to insurance executives. The calculations at ACA Signups are still based on brainwrap's estimate that it will reach 93%.

Update: Republican unskewers blindsided themselves by calling a hearing on how bad the payment numbers are without reading any of the numbers from the invited witnesses in advance.

Xpostfactoid blog, May 7: Reporters read insurance execs' testimony before yesterday's House Energy Committee ACA hearing. Looks like GOP reps didn't

Last week, the House Energy & Commerce Committee put out a mendacious report claiming that insurance company executives had submitted data to them showing that just two thirds of ACA private plan enrollees had paid their first month's premium. ACA signups tracker Charles Gaba shot that rotten fish in a barrel within an hour of the report's release.

…they're VERY clear about what they're claiming: that as of 4/15/14, only 67% of all QHP enrollments via Healthcare.Gov had paid their first month's premium, right?

Well, there's a serious problem right there, because out of the 8 million or so enrollments as of 4/15, only 5 million of the first month's premiums were even due.

Gaba was the first of many; the claim was widely debunked.