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Poll:
Uninsured Americans reject Obamacare
By
John Nolte
A new
Gallup poll brings more terrible news for President Obama and his
signature health plan, showing that only 22% of uninsured Americans
who plan to buy insurance have visited the ObamaCare exchanges.
One
of the major selling points for using ObamaCare to disrupt our health
care system (that polls showed up to 80% of Americans were satisfied
with) was to insure the uninsured. But according to this poll, only a
very small minority of that small minority is even interested in
obtaining insurance.
Even
more troubling is the realization that a month ago, only 44% of the
uninsured said they would purchase insurance though the exchanges.
The
high cost of premiums, the high deductibles customers have to pay
regardless of any tax subsidy, and the unforgivable bungling of the
rollout have apparently only served to discourage those whom we blew
up a perfectly good health care system to help.
The
worse news is that you can bet that those who do intend to sign up
are made up of the oldest and sickest among the uninsured. Meanwhile,
those uninterested in being insured are likely the youngest and
healthiest.
This
means a sicker and older pool of enrollees, which means higher
premiums for a couple hundred million Americans who were perfectly
satisfied with what they had--that is, before President Obama,
Democrats, and the media decided what was best for us.
As of
now, the poll shows only 18% of the uninsured have even tried to
visit a marketplace website.
When
you look at the nearly four million Americans who have already had
their insurance cancelled, the low enrollment numbers we have seen so
far, and combine that with the website problems, sticker shock, and
overall disgust, it is not out inconceivable to speculate that by
this time next year, ObamaCare will have caused the number of
uninsured in America to increase.
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