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February 27, 2014 at 12:42 PM
Reporters should ask insurers, not federal officials, for information about early federal exchange plan premium payments.
Josh Earnest, the White House principal deputy press secretary, gave that advice Wednesday during a press briefing on Air Force One, according to a transcript provided by the White House.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, runs or helps run the new public health insurance exchange programs in 34 states.
Managers of some state-based exchanges have given information on the number of consumers who have actually paid for private exchange plans, or “qualified health plans.”
HHS has reported the number of people who have selected QHP coverage, but it has not given any information about paid QHP enrollment through the HHS-run exchanges.
PPACA opponents have speculated that true paid QHP enrollment may be considerably lower than the number of people who have picked QHP coverage.
