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Editor's
notes and a word of warning: All of the commentary
below comes from the Kaiser site, noted. The take-away in this report,
is the fact that the general population does not yet realize how their
world has changed. Beginning with the tax season in April of 2015,
fines will be assessed and/or proof of payments for insurance required. All
of America is now required to either buy government defined insurance or pay a
fine. That $95 dollar fine for a young person, making next to
nothing, will be $695 in 2016. The curse of ObamaCare, for
the Democrats, is simply not going to go away. All prices and fines
will increase. And the subsidy program will be reduced for the low income
employee, in order to pay for those who are below the poverty line. Such facts are not common knowledge, as of yet.
The healthy young have no clue that they are being used to
finance this program. The older citizen does not realize that their
Medicare benefit package will be cut, tailored to fit the current
Medicare outlays. And the taxpayer does not realize that this program,
laughingly called the Affordable Care Act, instead of saving a
family of four, $2,500 per year as promised, will double that cost and,
year after year, will be a forced expense and an increasing burden.
It is critically important that the GOP never side with this
bill. There is coming the day, when the voter will be looking for
"blood." Currently, this is all on the Democrats.
When the time comes that the GOP has the political clout to deal with the
ACA, it will need to frame the revision(s) as "repeal AND
replace." Somehow, the GOP will have to balance popular and
uninformed opinion, with the facts of the real world as relates to
ObamaCare, as it, the GOP, rescues the nation from this
idiocy.
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From The Kaiser Family Health foundation:
As the clock
ticks down on open enrollment for new coverage options under the Affordable
Care Act (ACA), the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that six in ten of
the uninsured are unaware of the March 31 deadline to sign up for coverage.
When reminded of the deadline and the fine for not getting covered, half of
those who lack coverage as of mid-March say they plan to remain uninsured.
Meanwhile, four in ten of the uninsured are still unaware of the law’s
subsidies to help lower-income Americans purchase coverage, and half don’t know
about the law’s expansion of Medicaid. Among the public overall, general
opinion of the ACA moved in a more positive direction this month for the first
time since November’s post-rollout negative shift in opinion. While unfavorable
views of the law continue to outpace favorable ones, the gap between negative
and positive views now stands at eight percentage points, down from 16
percentage points in January. Four years after the ACA’s passage, a little over
half the public says they are tired of hearing the national debate over the law
and want the country to focus more on other things, while four in ten say it’s
important for the debate to continue. At the same time, six in ten want
Congress to keep the law in place and either leave it as is or work to improve
it, while three in ten would prefer to see it either repealed and replaced with
a Republican alternative or repealed and not replaced.
Most
uninsured unaware of March 31 deadline, half plan to remain uninsured
In the final
days of open enrollment for new health insurance options under the ACA,
substantial shares of the uninsured remain unaware of the law’s individual
mandate and the looming deadline to sign up for coverage. A third of those who
lack coverage as of mid-March are unaware that the law requires nearly all
Americans to have health insurance or pay a fine. When it comes to the
specifics, four in ten of the uninsured (39 percent) are aware that the
deadline to sign up for coverage is at the end of March, leaving about six in
ten unaware of the March deadline.
When
reminded of the mandate and the deadline, half of those without coverage as of
mid-March say they think they will remain uninsured, while four in ten expect
to obtain coverage and one in ten are unsure.
A third (33
percent) of the uninsured say they have tried to get insurance for themselves
in the past 6 months, including 18 percent who report attempting to get
coverage through a health insurance marketplace, 14 percent from Medicaid, and
13 percent directly from a private insurance company. Still, the large majority
– 67 percent – say they have not attempted to get coverage.
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