
If she’s saying 10-20% then it’s more like 20-40%, the key word here is “initial.”
Via The Hill:
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday cited insurance company estimates that say between 80 and 90 percent of those who have selected a plan under ObamaCare have completed the critical final step of making a first premium payment.
“What we know from insurance companies … tell us that, for their initial customers, it’s somewhere between 80, 85, some say as high as 90 percent, have paid so far,” Sebelius said on KWTV-TV, in an interview first uncovered by BuzzFeed. “Lots of companies have different timetables for when their new customers have to send their first payment.”
Republicans have been pressing the administration for that information for weeks now.
Earlier this month, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) sent a letter to Sebelius saying she had been “evasive and perhaps misleading” in her testimony before his committee.
At the hearing, Sebelius reiterated the administration’s claim that they’re not able to break down enrollees by who has made a payment because they only have access to information about those selecting plans on the HealthCare.gov website.
