Who exactly is signing up for ObamaCare?

American Thinker.com ^ | November 27, 2017 | Silvio Canto, Jr

[Kaslin]

We hear about this surge in ObamaCare enrollments.

The San Francisco Chronicle is even asserting that "the public embrace of the Affordable Care Act amounts to a stark rejection of administration and Republican policy".

Maybe we can call it something like the revenge of the AHA.

The editorial spends a lot of time bashing Trump but it does not say anything about the economic state of the people signing up. In other words, are these AHA policyholders going to pay their own premiums or will they be subsidized in some fashion?

We don't know but the answer matters a lot.

A week ago, the New York Times wrote another article about ObamaCare. It gave us a glimpse about the dilemma of the middle class, or the people who have to pay their own way. This is how they described the state of the AHA:

[martinidon]

I don’t know how you are buying insurance that covers pre-existing conditions outside of the exchange because I can not. The pre-existing law only covers policies offered by the exchange. If you have a pre-existing condition you might want to check your policy because it may not be covered. If you paid $21K for an independent policy you got screwed. An independent policy for me is a 1/3rd of what the exchange is but it will not cover my issues.