Posted on 09/13/2010 3:03:38 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Democrats' healthcare reform law, already challenged by Republicans who want to repeal it and state officials who want to ignore it, faces yet another challenge from a disengaged public.
States across the country are reporting lower than expected participation in the high-risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions, raising concerns that a lack of public engagement could affect the program's success — and that of health reform more generally.
Some observers blame high healthcare costs and the angry political rhetoric ahead of the midterm elections for obscuring the law's benefits.
"What the press seems to cover is all the negative arguments going on about healthcare reform, and I think people are put off by that and don't take advantage of this opportunity that's available because they don't know what's at stake," said Jean Hall, an associate research professor at the University of Kansas.
Hall, who studies high-risk pools with support from the Commonwealth Fund, said most states are reporting lower-than-expected participation in the program. The Department of Health and Human Services has yet to release state-by-state statistics on the high-risk pools, but press accounts confirm a slow start.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The American People are just too damn stupid to realize what a great deal this is. Every last one of them.
It couldn't be because the deal sucks, because the finest minds in the Democrat Congress lovingly crafted each of the six thousand provisions to ensure it would be a great deal for whomever took it. The only possible explanation is that this country is populated by 300 Million people who don't have the good sense to come in out of the rain. Every single one of us is a moron.
Here's someone that needs a Ph.D. revoked or never should have gotten it in the first place. Yes , Jean, people are sitting around saying, "I'd like to do something that really benefits me, but I might get a bad press, so I just won't."
BTW, in New Jersey, they set aside $70 Million for this program, and advertised on TV and Radio, and only two people signed up. The rest of us are idiots, apparently.
Their not conned too?
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/89886767.html?page=2&c=y
Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., “They just didn’t understand how we could save money on this by adding more people to the system, how it was going to impact them in terms of their premiums and their access to care.”
The freeloader class isn’t going to pay for something they get free anyway
Maybe everybody who thinks this Big Government Boondoggle and Union Bailout Bill already has good health insurance through their government or unionized job...
It couldn't be because the deal sucks, because the finest minds in the Democrat Congress lovingly crafted each of the six thousand provisions to ensure it would be a great deal for whomever took it. The only possible explanation is that this country is populated by 300 Million people who don't have the good sense to come in out of the rain. Every single one of us is a moron.
Therefore everyone opposed to Obamacare will receive a mandated government paid lobotomy courtesy of Dear Leader.
Maybe they can just add Thorazine to the water supply...
“Here’s someone that needs a Ph.D. revoked or never should have gotten it in the first place.”
Consider the source:
“Hall, who studies high-risk pools with support from the Commonwealth Fund,”
The Commonwealth Fund has been promoting single-payer (Medicare for All) for years. It shouldn’t be surprising that its funding ends up in the hands of “progressive” academics uninterested in facts getting in the way of a good narrative.
A majority of the public sensibly opposes single payer health care, so the only way progressives can square this reality with their own twisted views is by assuming the public is stupid or ill-informed. In their view, it couldn’t possibly be that single payer or efforts to move us in that direction (such as Obamacare) are simply really bad ideas.
Thanks for the background.
I want a pony. But I’m too stupid to take the free one the government wants to give me.
Pre-existing conditions = Loophole
Two people in my state signed up for it.
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