I'd like to see what the projected ongoing costs are for enrollees that continue in the system for the next year. Surely, the cost of maintaining an enrollee is substantially lower?
>> I still want to know what happened to the other forty million uninsured.
Forty million? It was estimated at 23 million. Here is the breakdown of uninsured from Wikipedia:
Illegal immigrants, estimated at around 8 million—or roughly a third of the 23 million projection—will be ineligible for insurance subsidies and Medicaid.[121]
[126] They will also be exempt from the health insurance mandate but will remain eligible for emergency services under provisions in the 1986 Emergency Medical
Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).
Citizens not enrolled in Medicaid despite being eligible.[127]
Citizens not otherwise covered and opting to pay the annual penalty instead of purchasing insurance, mostly younger and single Americans.[127]
Citizens whose insurance coverage would cost more than 8% of household income and are exempt from paying the annual penalty.[127]
Citizens who live in states that opt out of the Medicaid expansion and who qualify for neither existing Medicaid coverage nor subsidized coverage through the states' new insurance exchanges.[125]
A lot of them are being covered by their employers due to increased requirements there, and a lot of them are being covered by Medicaid because of widened eligibility there. I have no idea how close they all add up to cover everybody, but you have to look beyond the insurance exchanges to see how well the law is doing in covering the uninsured.