Billions spent on this disaster of a healthcare plan and the one group it was supposed to help the most doesn't want any part of it. Way to go Barry. You are a f;n genius.

The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway so far in signing up Americans who lack health insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal.

A pair of surveys released on Thursday suggest that just one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private health plans through the new marketplace have signed up for one — and that about half of uninsured adults has looked for information on the online exchanges or plans to look.

Taken together, the snapshots shown by the surveys provide preliminary answers to what has been one of the biggest mysteries since HealthCare.gov and separate state marketplaces opened last fall: Are they attracting their prime audience?

One of the surveys, by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., shows that, of people who had signed up for coverage through the marketplaces by last month, just one-fourth described themselves as having been without insurance for most of the past year.

The survey also attempted to gauge what has been another fuzzy matter: how many of the people actually have the insurance for which they signed up. Under federal rules, coverage begins only if someone has started to pay their monthly insurance premiums.

And, the survey show, that just over half of uninsured people said they had started to pay, compared with nearly nine in 10 of those signing up on the exchanges who said they were simply switching from one health plan to another.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h...story.html

(03-06-2014 04:54 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

Billions spent on this disaster of a healthcare plan and the one group it was supposed to help the most doesn't want any part of it. Way to go Barry. You are a f;n genius.

The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway so far in signing up Americans who lack health insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal.

A pair of surveys released on Thursday suggest that just one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private health plans through the new marketplace have signed up for one — and that about half of uninsured adults has looked for information on the online exchanges or plans to look.

Taken together, the snapshots shown by the surveys provide preliminary answers to what has been one of the biggest mysteries since HealthCare.gov and separate state marketplaces opened last fall: Are they attracting their prime audience?

One of the surveys, by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., shows that, of people who had signed up for coverage through the marketplaces by last month, just one-fourth described themselves as having been without insurance for most of the past year.

The survey also attempted to gauge what has been another fuzzy matter: how many of the people actually have the insurance for which they signed up. Under federal rules, coverage begins only if someone has started to pay their monthly insurance premiums.

And, the survey show, that just over half of uninsured people said they had started to pay, compared with nearly nine in 10 of those signing up on the exchanges who said they were simply switching from one health plan to another.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h...story.html

They don't have to take it if they don't want to. They can simply pay the penalty. It will fund those who do want it.

(03-06-2014 05:16 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(03-06-2014 04:54 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

Billions spent on this disaster of a healthcare plan and the one group it was supposed to help the most doesn't want any part of it. Way to go Barry. You are a f;n genius.

The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway so far in signing up Americans who lack health insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal.

A pair of surveys released on Thursday suggest that just one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private health plans through the new marketplace have signed up for one — and that about half of uninsured adults has looked for information on the online exchanges or plans to look.

Taken together, the snapshots shown by the surveys provide preliminary answers to what has been one of the biggest mysteries since HealthCare.gov and separate state marketplaces opened last fall: Are they attracting their prime audience?

One of the surveys, by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., shows that, of people who had signed up for coverage through the marketplaces by last month, just one-fourth described themselves as having been without insurance for most of the past year.

The survey also attempted to gauge what has been another fuzzy matter: how many of the people actually have the insurance for which they signed up. Under federal rules, coverage begins only if someone has started to pay their monthly insurance premiums.

And, the survey show, that just over half of uninsured people said they had started to pay, compared with nearly nine in 10 of those signing up on the exchanges who said they were simply switching from one health plan to another.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h...story.html

They don't have to take it if they don't want to. They can simply pay the penalty. It will fund those who do want it.

Wow, what a weak response. It was all about the uninsured and you just write them off now. Oh by the way, on that penalty issue, the Republicans have a plan. See the link...

http://news.yahoo.com/u-house-votes-dela...ector.html

How do you think those forced to pay a penalty will respond to that move?

(03-06-2014 05:16 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(03-06-2014 04:54 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

Billions spent on this disaster of a healthcare plan and the one group it was supposed to help the most doesn't want any part of it. Way to go Barry. You are a f;n genius.

The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway so far in signing up Americans who lack health insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal.

A pair of surveys released on Thursday suggest that just one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private health plans through the new marketplace have signed up for one — and that about half of uninsured adults has looked for information on the online exchanges or plans to look.

Taken together, the snapshots shown by the surveys provide preliminary answers to what has been one of the biggest mysteries since HealthCare.gov and separate state marketplaces opened last fall: Are they attracting their prime audience?

One of the surveys, by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., shows that, of people who had signed up for coverage through the marketplaces by last month, just one-fourth described themselves as having been without insurance for most of the past year.

The survey also attempted to gauge what has been another fuzzy matter: how many of the people actually have the insurance for which they signed up. Under federal rules, coverage begins only if someone has started to pay their monthly insurance premiums.

And, the survey show, that just over half of uninsured people said they had started to pay, compared with nearly nine in 10 of those signing up on the exchanges who said they were simply switching from one health plan to another.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h...story.html

They don't have to take it if they don't want to. They can simply pay the penalty. It will fund those who do want it.

But "everyone" said they needed it. And where is your concern for people who go through their whole lives without insurance?

imbecile.

Math isn't my strength, and sometimes I struggle a bit with the whole numbers thing.

But isn't 1 in 10 kind of like saying 10%? Or, put another way, saying not 90%? lol.

What a debacle.

Time is near progs. Real near.

(03-06-2014 05:16 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  They don't have to take it if they don't want to. They can simply pay the penalty. It will fund those who do want it.

How?

Of course they aren't. They are uninsured because they can't fit it in their balance sheet. They sure as heck aren't going to shell out $1,000 per month for a $12k deductible plan. The only thing they consider with subsidies is income. Doesn't do anything for the $70k middle classer that simply has too many expenses to afford it.

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I've been seeing a local ad for a sham business (government funded) that exists SOLELY to sign people up for Obamacare.

I laugh every time I see it because I can just picture the people's faces when they see that it's not free. LOL!!!!

(03-06-2014 05:16 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(03-06-2014 04:54 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

Billions spent on this disaster of a healthcare plan and the one group it was supposed to help the most doesn't want any part of it. Way to go Barry. You are a f;n genius.

The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway so far in signing up Americans who lack health insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal.

A pair of surveys released on Thursday suggest that just one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private health plans through the new marketplace have signed up for one — and that about half of uninsured adults has looked for information on the online exchanges or plans to look.

Taken together, the snapshots shown by the surveys provide preliminary answers to what has been one of the biggest mysteries since HealthCare.gov and separate state marketplaces opened last fall: Are they attracting their prime audience?

One of the surveys, by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., shows that, of people who had signed up for coverage through the marketplaces by last month, just one-fourth described themselves as having been without insurance for most of the past year.

The survey also attempted to gauge what has been another fuzzy matter: how many of the people actually have the insurance for which they signed up. Under federal rules, coverage begins only if someone has started to pay their monthly insurance premiums.

And, the survey show, that just over half of uninsured people said they had started to pay, compared with nearly nine in 10 of those signing up on the exchanges who said they were simply switching from one health plan to another.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h...story.html

They don't have to take it if they don't want to. They can simply pay the penalty. It will fund those who do want it.

You really think that $95 penalty will fund those that want it?

All this horsesh!t law is doing is swelling the Medicaid roles. They could have done that without f_cking up everyone else's insurance.