Posted on 02/22/2014 3:36:56 PM PST by Libloather
The Obama administration is engaged in a “final coordinated push” to enroll blacks in ObamaCare, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Friday.
Jarrett said blacks have a “disproportionately low rate of coverage,” and called enrolling them the administration’s “top priority.”
“We still have a long way to go and we want to make sure we take advantage of every opportunity for outreach,” she said in a Friday conference call with reporters and three mayors that preside over large black communities: Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, Calif., Michael Nutter of Philadelphia and A.C. Wharton of Memphis, Tenn.
An estimated 6.8 million African-Americans lack healthcare coverage. The 2014 enrollment deadline closes on March 31.
The Obama administration said youth organizers and stakeholders would be launching enrollment events targeting black youths in the coming weeks. Jarrett also highlighted some of the black celebrities and athletes that the administration has brought on board for the push. They include Magic Johnson, Alonzo Mourning, Aisha Tyler, Pharrell Williams and Kerry Washington.
The administration will also be looking “to strengthen our partnerships across the country with mayors and state officials.”
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not said how many blacks have enrolled in ObamaCare, but enrollment trends in California, where Hispanic enrollment appears to be lagging, have stoked fears that minority groups are not getting the administration’s message.
Wharton said one of the barriers to enrollment in his poverty-stricken city is that the poor have become so reliant on free emergency room services that any cash outlay for insurance, no matter how cheap, would be a sticker shock for some of his citizens.
Nutter blamed the hyper-politicization of ObamaCare for keeping some blacks from enrolling.
“You can’t deny the impact of the intensity of the vitriol in the debate around moving towards the ACA, all of the politics and strategies utilized ... the inane debates in Congress, the 40 plus attempts to repeal ... the confusing array of information that’s out there,” he said. “The general public has real lives and real problems and they don’t have time to sit around having esoteric debates about this.”
Friday’s conference call is part of a series of high-profile events that White House officials and surrogates will be making in the coming weeks before the enrollment deadline.
They've become the 'entertainment'.
“blacks have a “disproportionately low rate of coverage,””
it’s well known that skin color affects your ability to fill out applications.
Jail docs are free. You can even get your oo's cut off if you've decided to go she.
Equal protection
He won't get them to pay up.
Since so many blacks are unemployed, the would be on Medicaid if they signed up, thus paying nothing.
The ‘RATS engaging in a little “racial profiling.”
i guess welfare workers fill out their paper work for them then...
How damn stupid do you have to be to fall for a huckster who’s stealing your treasure, murdering your unborn babies and enriching himself?
When Sherman rolled thru the south, he told the slaves that you need to be willing to work for your bread to eat.
(Please, God, send me one of the DU infiltrators here on FR to call me a racist so I can stomp his nuts into the concrete. Thank you.)
Obama voters are totally ignorant of all those things. Most of those black uninsured voters have only been deterred by the disturbing rumor that, unlike what they were led to believe, ObamaCare may NOT be free.
This "big push" is intended to solve that problem by giving them free Medicaid.
Easy Peasy.
So true. Why are there so few takers signing up?
Because they are completely unable or not wanting to take any personal responsibility for or show any personal initiative about anything. They are dependent zombies.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not said how many blacks have enrolled, but California enrollment trends indicate Hispanic enrollment appears to be lagging, stoking fears that minority groups (the underserved) are not getting the message.........
Apparently, the Obo-dum-dums finally figured out that sap-happy pols blanketed so-called "underserved populations" with so many govt freebies, like free medical care in emergency rooms, that these "underserved" types are thumbing their noses at laying out cash for Obamacare.
LOL - yep the “underserved populations” are NOT impressed with this program (Obamacare). Under the old system they were NEVER turned down - and took their medical needs to Hospital Emergency rooms where they received the best medical care for free... And the hospitals got to write the care off their taxes and the middle class paid for it all...
LOL - great word...
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