Only a fraction of those who use website are actually paying for insurance

Daily Caller:

There’s bad news hidden behind the White House’s latest optimistic Obamacare report.

Few people are actually paying for the healthcare plans that they’ve picked on the partially-fixed Obamacare website, say industry insiders.

Also, too few young people are joining the plans offered by companies using the Obamacare website, said Robert Laszewski, a plugged-in insurance consultant.

Older clients, aged above 40, comprise 60 percent of the new Obamacare customers at one of his client health-care companies, Laszewski told The Daily Caller.

The skew is “very, very bad,” said Laszewski, who is president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, Inc.

The insurance companies need many young and healthy clients to offset the cost of providing benefits to older and sicker patients, he said. Any lack of young and healthy patients will drive up costs for older and sicker patients in 2014.

The White House’s goal is 2.7 million young people, out of 7 million expected customers, by April 1.
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The chances of reaching their goals do not look feasible at this point.  Even with the five million they have thrown on the exchanges by having their insurance cancelled they do not appear to be getting the trafic needed regardless of their demographic.