Guess Who Obamacare Isn't Reaching: The Uninsured
On TheHill.com, Jonathan Easley writes:
ObamaCare isn't achieving its primary goal of extending coverage to the uninsured, according to a new study.The survey released Thursday by the McKinsey & Co. consulting firm found that only 27 percent of people who have selected a plan on the new exchanges didn't previously have coverage.
The Obama administration says 4 million people have selected a plan since the exchanges launched on Oct. 1, but has not said how many of them already had an insurance plan.
via @instapundit
A lot of the uninsured couldn't afford insurance or didn't want to pay for it in the first place.
So now you've upped the cost and limited the choices. The alternate option is a 1.5% fine. That is still cheaper.
What did they expect?
Jim P. at March 8, 2014 5:10 AM
I guess that I am one of those "uninsured" because in this Obamanation economy the only work that I have been able to find (when I can find it) has been temp work.
Not knowing how long it will be before the next paying job comes along I need to save every dime for simple things like rent, food, gas, etc.
Yea, it would be nice to have health insurance; but, guess what, health insurance doesn't mean crap if you get evicted for not paying rent. Health insurance doesn't mean crap if you can't buy food. Health insurance doesn't mean crap if you don't have a way of driving to the doctors.
As Amy has said so many times - if they really wanted to reform health insurance they would have set up laws allowing for a free-market to develop NOT connected to work.
As a temp worker, any health insurance I buy through work is only in effect while I have that temp job. So, when the job assignment ends, so does the insurance. That doesn't help me. It isn't rocket science to know that.
Obama and his supporters are assholes - it is that simple.
And now Putin is kicking little cry-baby's butt. Love it!
Charles at March 8, 2014 6:15 AM
Hey, basic math, huh? According to the figures quoted by Jonathan
Easley, above, over a million previously uninsured people now have
health insurance.
Ron at March 8, 2014 6:47 AM
Wasn't there a claim that there were 40 million uninsured when they were trying to pass it?
But of course that million newly will cut down significantly on the uninsured.
CBO: Obamacare Will Leave 30 Million Uninsured
Jim P. at March 8, 2014 8:33 AM
And still, "insurance" IS NOT HEALTH CARE.
Radwaste at March 8, 2014 10:16 AM
over a million previously uninsured people now have health insurance
Ok, so now the question is: how many who previously had insurance no longer can afford their insurance and are now uninsured?
Or those like our lovely blog hostess, who now pays more and gets less than her previous coverage?
Would have been cheaper to just buy insurance for those uninsurable than to wreck our health care system, but yet the cluefucks in DC opted for the latter, not the former.
I R A Darth Aggie at March 9, 2014 9:41 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/03/guess-who-obama.html#comment-4349821">comment from I R A Darth AggieGregg is going to work out the details of my insurance this month -- how I can downgrade it to make it affordable again. I have spent many days and hours stressing over something I took a week or two to research and figure out in my 20s so I'd have it set for life. I resent that the government has messed up my care this way.
Amy Alkon
at March 9, 2014 11:07 AM
Marry Gregg. He digs you, and he's helping you with your insurance.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at March 9, 2014 9:01 PM
Crid, maybe this:
Why don't you and Margret get married?
What is it with you Americans and marriage? You seem to have some kind of confusion that makes a ritual inseparable from the thing it announces. I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but if you don't have a funeral, you're still dead, OK? No, we're never going to get married. And we've spent the money it would have cost us on a loft conversion.
http://www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/faq.htm
Ron at March 9, 2014 10:32 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/03/guess-who-obama.html#comment-4351962">comment from Crid [CridComment at Gmail]I love him but why should we marry? Do we need a contract?
Amy Alkon
at March 9, 2014 10:49 PM
I love him but why should we marry? Do we need a contract?
Posted by: Amy Alkon at March 9, 2014 10:49 PM
Possibly for estate purposes. But when you don't have kids, it rarely matters.
Isab at March 10, 2014 1:51 PM
This sort of loops us around to the subject at hand.
Because medical insurance has been so tied to employment, one of the
big reasons for couples to marry has been so that the spouse can get
medical coverage.
Ron at March 10, 2014 2:41 PM
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