This Cat Won't Hunt

even though such coverage is available to the estimated 67,000 Vermonters without health insurance — about 10 percent of the state's population — Catamount signups as of March total only 2,764 people.
    Times Argus

Catamount has been advertised almost as lavishly as the lottery but not as many people are playing.  And the people who are playing may not be the ones the program needs -- young and healthy and therefore not likely to run up big medical bills. 

enrollment is lagging for people who are younger or make more than $30,000.

So hardly anyone is signing up and the people who do enroll are not those that the program needs.  Other than that, Catamount is a great success.

"Yes, it needs some fixing, but overall a lot of good has come from Catamount," [VPIRG health care advocate Stefanie] Sidortsova says. "For thousands of people in Vermont, this has been a great thing."

Comments

[GreggB]

The horror the horror. Sounds like an emergency there is money to spend. Perhaps if they had Catamount insurance cover the medical services people want, like boob jobs, more people would sign up.