Posted on 03/17/2014 5:22:37 PM PDT by Nachum
Despite spending over half-a-billion dollars on increasingly mind-blowing promotions for Obamacare, a new survey released today shows that even the website apparently fixed, over one-third of Americans without insurance say they plan to stay that way, even after being told that the new law requires them to get covered or pay a penalty. As CBS notes, some 46% of those surveyed also were unaware of the March 31 deadline for being insured as it seems "low-income, young families may have been overlooked. They're probably not spending a lot of time watching television, they never read a newspaper and if they listen to radio it's probably music in the car." 41% cited insurance as still too expensive with, oddly, 39% of middle-aged men preferring to stay uninsured.
As Bloomberg notes, the headline number above hides some other notable highlights (or lowlights)...
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The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Whoops....sounds like finger puppets in the works...
Take that insurance and shove it.
They would rather continue their practice of checking into the nearest hospital emergency room and letting the hospital and paying patients foot the bill.
I think that prediction is optimistic. Nearly every plan is more expensive now than it was before Obamacare and yet these people either couldn’t afford it then or chose not to get it. Now that the cost has doubled what incentive is there for the uninsured to suddenly go out and buy these new plans?
The penalty? Like anyone is going to enforce that provision.
Very few of the new enrollees will make the third payment. They’ll take their chances, just as they did before.
I guess it’s not enough to just get a “free” lunch anymore. Now, they have to send a free limo to pick you up and bring you to the restaurant.
Let’s encourage them to stay uninsured ...
Good post.
My MBA hospital consultant friend tells me that uninsured hospital bills are typically recovered about 3%.
Obama will find these people, fine them and stick the IRS on them...
Democrats will gush about people signing up...
What’s next, cattle prods?
and yet 90+% of urban low-income folk vote in every presidential election... hmmmm....
Probably more than that.
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