The changes, finalized today, are generally effective for the 2022 plan year and will potentially lower enrollee cost sharing on some of the most expensive prescription drugs.
medicaid, through young adults signing up, you mentioned 3 million young adults on their parent s plan, the over 6 million people already enrolled, those are a lot of uninsured people. speaking of uninsured, we still have 35 million uninsured after today. right. approximately. what is the plan who are those folks? and when do you expect to get insurance when do you expect them to get on the rolls in some form or another? this is not a one-year project. the congressional budget office, when they did the original projections, estimated it would take several years to really make a dent in the overall number. a lot of that is education. what we feel very good about right now is when the part d program started, the first year only reached 70% of the congressional budget office s projections. we re clearly doing much better than that. we re off to a terrific start. if i could say one other thing, chuck. you did a great job in your setup about putting out different facts about the
day tomorrow and the next day and the day after that as we can. you know, what s interesting is insurers and pharmacies go through this every year. they went through this before the affordable care act was ever passed because people change policies, because seniors change programs in the part d program. they know how to handle this. we ve worked very closely with them because we know they ll be a spotlight tomorrow. we don t want anybody to have problems but we know some people will. that s why we ve set up a toll-free number. 1-800-318-2596. i want to repeat that one more time. it s 1-800-318-2596. if anyone s having problems tomorrow, if they go to a pharmacy, if they go to a hospital, there s no records, they should call that number. the insurer can call that number. we ll be able to determine in five minutes whether or not they properly enrolled. if they have a bigger problem, then we ll assign a case worker to it and try to get a
idea that you can sign up for it there are still problems that the website is sending still sending inaccurate information to the insurers and they still haven t even billed the process for payments to the insurers. that s a big deal, isn t it? well, actually that process is known as an 834 file. that process is working much better. it is absolutely the case that this is a fundamental aspect of this and a good benchmark of this is when we have medicare prescription bills, the part d program, we actually had hundreds of thousands of seniors being sent to the wrong they got the wrong pharmaceutical information. that s a big problem. so, we want to avoid that problem that already happened in the past. we want to make sure it doesn t happen again. and we are finding that the administration has found over the last week that that has been a much improved process. obviously, the test will be in a month. but i think that the idea of doom and gloom around that is overstated. all right