Depends how you frame it. The correct number was 10.3. The prediction of 23 million was an error of more than 100%.
What's kind of funny about this is that more attention is paid to the math than to the horrible overestimate itself.
Are we gonna ignore that Congress has refused to address issues, make modification or do anything other than cut funding to programs that were intended to establishing markets.
Congress blocked funding for shortfall funding that resulted in taking small insurers out of the equation.
The supreme court ruled that the subsidy incentives for state exchanges were to be applied to the federal exchange as well.
Congress did nothing to address this ruling that killed essentially killed the state exchanges.
Meanwhile e did see multiple states thrive with their own state exhanges yet those prgrams have been ignored by congress.
Also the government has blocked multiple mergers that would make these exhanges more viable for these companies.. which is fine but they failed to do anything about what wwas creating the need for the exchanges in the first place..
Quite a few states turned down expanding medical coverage that would of been completely covered and funded by the government.
If anything the ACA has shown why the states in general would be horrible at managing their own medicare plans as the states had been advocating for well before the ACA was introduced.
Meanwhile the healthcare industry is seeing a big boom as wel as the insurance carriers because of the Medicaid expansion to the point Insurers were willing to give exchanges a shot and take initial losses. However Congress and now congress and the White house ae doing everything they can to make it not viable.
Whats hilarious is that people like
@The Human Q-Tip who is all about state power and the states managing their programs reject a program designed to empower states . Every step the republican congress has taken since the ACA has passed has been to drive states away from making their own exhanges and plans and put everyone on the federal plans.
this is continued with the alternative legislation they are trying to push forward. A plan that results in less coverage and more federal control over fund and less power to the states
