This Obamacare Enrollment Assistance Group Got $200K In Fed Funds, Enrolled 1 Person

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by Tyler Durden

Nov 24, 2017 12:05 PM

 

 Earlier this summer, congressional democrats lost their collective minds when the Trump administration announced plans to cut Obamacare's marketing budget from $100 million down to $10 million (see: Democrats Furious After Trump Announces 90% Cut To Obamacare Marketing Funds).  Here was Chuck Schumer's response:

 

Ed; just use the link. 

  Now, per a note from MSNBC, we're getting some new data on just how effective Obama's $100 million marketing budget has been.  According to data supplied by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, one group in South Dakota received $200,000 worth of federal funding and managed to sign up just one person.

A group that is supposed to help Native Americans sign up for Obamacare coverage in South Dakota received $200,000 in federal funds to support its efforts — and managed to sign up just one person in an Obamacare plan, the Trump administration said Wednesday.

The group, the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board, had better luck in North Dakota — where it assisted 67 people in shopping for and enrolling in an Obamacare plan that went into effect in 2017.

But in that state, GPTCHB received an additional $154,000 in federal cash for its efforts.

That works out to nearly $3,000 per Obamacare enrollee of GPTCHB's in North Dakota.

In both Dakotas, the group's work cost taxpayers $5,200 per enrollee, according to data from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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