To get medical care. They didnt need it. They were healthy, and others chose bronze and ended up paying more out of pocket than they should have had they made a better decision. Our products are very diverse. Everything from High Deductible Health plans, as you say, compatible to zero deductible, nationwide networks as well as Regional Networks from all major carriers. Our successes, in large part due to our partners, we have strong relationships with the broker community, with assisters, navigators, other Government Agencies, elected officials, the Faithbased Community has been significant in our efforts, and we find that when we have sunday enrollment events, our numbers always go up in terms of number of applications, completed applications and plan selection. We have strong partnerships with all of the largest chambers in the district of columbia, and the National Association of Health Underwriters does our training for brokers, and that has helped significantly with our broker com
So the Affordable Care act is working in the District Of Columbia, just like its working in kentucky and in most states. We, according to the census our uninsured rate dropped by 20 . And in the District Of Columbia, as many of you know, we, we had a very low uninsured rate for many years. Through the years weve invested a whole lot in coverage expansion and expansion to medical care efforts. So my whole team was very proud when the census report came out that it really did matter that we were on the ground finding the hardtoreach population. Were not done yet, and we wont stop until every Single Person, child, individual who lives in the district or works in the district has access to affordable, quality, health care coverage. Since october 1, 2013, when we opened for business, over 166,000 people have come through us. On the individual marketplace side, over 24,000 people have come through us, on the medicaid side, over 120,000 people were found eligible for medicaid. We have no wron
Im married to a former colonel out of the u. S. Army. I have a son thats going into the u. S. Army. I sit so we consider ourselves a mmit, military family. And im going to tell you, we cannot continue as the solution with everything to send our troops in to do business. There are other means in which. We have to do that. Rselves diplomatic means. We have to have actionable intelligence. We have to use the economics of the situation. So i believe, in particular the Bush Administration used the military far too much and to our detriment in many cases. And sometimes i wonder if the ma Obama Administration doesnt understand that. It feels compelled to understand the situation and doesnt understand that somehow weve got to extricate ourselves south of some of these situations. You mean compelled the use iy military as an option . Exactly. Any ca they may feel compelled. Again, ill be very honest. When he first came in, i said look, we cant continue this. We just cannot continue this. Its no
Customers make better decisions. 136 year, we will have Group Health Plans and 26 different individual plans. When you have that many options, we know an shows that it is overwhelming. We heard that from our customers currently. We heard it from our broken partners broker partners, our navigators, and our assistance. Next year, we will be launching something similar. For 2016, we will also have new standardized plans. That means standardized benefits , as well as outofpocket expenses, that will help our customers make more informed decisions, compare apples to apples. In our first year of operation, we had semistandard products. The benefits had to be the same in the essential Health Benefits benchmark no substitutions. Copays and other outofpocket costs very. Although that was helpful, it was not the complete tools some needed to make good decisions. Same thingsed the as kentucky. Folks chose platinum when they had few opportunities to get medical care. They did not need it, they were
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