Only one in ten uninsured enrolled in Obamacare: Survey

American Thinker ^ | 03/07/2014 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

According to two new surveys published yesterday, uninsured Americans are staying away from Obamacare in droves.

The people the law was supposed to help the most, are voting with their pocketbooks and not signing up. One survey by McKinsey & Co. shows that just one in ten uninsured Americans have signed up so far for Obamacare.

Another survey by the Urban Institute shows that the uninsured are not signing up because they don't believe they can afford it.

Washington Post:

“If there is one point to the law, it is to lower the number of uninsured,” said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-policy organization. “Ultimately, that has to happen for the law to be judged a success.”

With just over three weeks remaining in a six-month sign-up period, the question of how many uninsured people are gaining coverage is eluding both Obama administration officials and most of the private health plans being sold through the new marketplaces.

Inside the Department of Health and Human Services, staff analysts who have been producing monthly enrollment updates are confronted with a major hindrance to examining the question of people’s prior insurance status: the wording of the HealthCare.gov applications themselves.

The paper versions of applications, used by a small fraction of people who are signing up, contain a multiple-choice question asking whether people in a household currently have insurance. “No” is one of the boxes people can check.

But the online application, which most people use to enroll, asks whether people want to apply for coverage but does not give them a place to indicate whether they have insurance now or have had it in the past.

[Tulane]

This didn’t make CBS, NBC, abc, or NPR yesterday. Therefore, it isn’t true.

[Buckeye McFrog]

This stupid law is in a full-speed power dive straight into the ground.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Polls taken before the insurance kicked in said the unisured would not sign up. They were never going to sign up. There are always about 30-40 million people who don’t have insurance because they don’t want it.

This whole thing is about destroying the US private health insurance system and forcing us all into a single payer UK/Canadian style system. Doomed to fail.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Only one in ten uninsured enrolled in Obamacare: Survey"

They could not afford insurance BEFORE Obamacare, and they still cannot afford it AFTER Obamacare.