no, the first one from florida blue. he assured me the policy would be cancelled. now where do you stand? well, i spent the last six weeks jumping through every hoop that florida blue set in front of me. they wanted a letter of termination, then they said, okay, you re set and we ll cancel within one or two days and send you a check. now their latest thing is saying we can t cancel the policy, despite the fact i m the policy holder and telling them to cancel it. healthhealthcare.gov has to tels your policy has been canceled. so i called them and they said we can t issue you a letter. we re telling you, you don t have a policy live florida blue. so i m in an endless loop. abbott and costello. other people are penalized they think they sign up, turns out their payment has not gone through so they don t have it.
question to say. definitely you say inflated, i say stupid. you re nicer. they re trying to put a number out that s as high as possible. this is so frustrating and i take an i were issue with the world enrollee. we re not talking about a policy holder looking at this crucial march 31 deadline where they expect a 40% healthy/young versus 60% risky, elderly and sick to balance a pool they said without that formula the program cannot sustain its and we re going to be listening to data, again, about enrollees. they have nothing to do which the and the properpatriot polic if you keep the numbers fuzzy, confuse everybody. ask how many people are enrolled and i hear all kinds of different numbers and part of the reason is nobody really knows. if they keep the high number if at some point they re going to have to we re going to hit a cliff at some point?
it s inflated to say and no question to say. definitely you say inflated, i say stupid. you re nicer. they re trying to put a number out that s as high as possible. this is so frustrating and i take an i we with the world enrollee. we re not talking about a policy holder looking at this crucial march 31 deadline where they expect a 40% healthy/young versus 60% risky, elderly and sick to balance a pool they said without that formula the program cannot sustain its and we re going to be listening to data, again, about enrollees. they have nothing to do which the and the properpatriot polic if you keep the numbers fuzzy, confuse everybody. ask how many people are enrolled and i hear all kinds of different numbers and part of the reason is nobody really knows. if they keep the high number if at some point they re going to have to we re going to hit a cliff at some point?
policy holder if they haven t been paid. while you have to have, in a six-month period, they needed a million people. the low estimate was 6 million, the high estimate was 7 million by march 31. if that was a million people a month, they re not going as a rate where they will reach the estimate, even the low estimate, by march 31. is it good news that there was a surge of enrollment in january? yes, it is. it s good news that it surged the most in red states or reddish states. louisiana, florida, mississippi, texas. places that they were worried that they were not going to see a bunch of people heading to the site. there s still so many problems. looking at 25% of the invincibles coming to the system. they need 40%. i still believe there s a potential for problems with what that data looks like, are those people paid in? are they healthy enough? do we have a balanced pool? come march 31, and even though they say they would never
are not quite sure what to do next. elizabeth prann reporting from washington. elizabeth? after meeting at the white house friday now have the broken promise sell back insurance plans to customers who received cancellation notices. daunting feat seeing as insurance companies answer to state regulators they cannot reinstate plans without the governing body s approval. a number have already rejected the president s proposal saying it could raise premiums it would be a huge undertaking, hundreds of thousands of policies have already had cancellation notices issued to the policy holder. undoing that, putting the toothpaste back in the tube if you will would be a very very difficult thing to do. the the washington post reporting so far states are split. florida, north carolina, ohio, kentucky and texas, for example, have said insurers can sell back plans, rhode island, vermont, and washington state will stay the course.