Nearly 90% of uninsured qualify for exemptions from Obamacare

[Banjo]

A story in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal says nearly 90% of all those who were uninsured prior to the enactment of Obamacare will be exempt from having to sign up for coverage.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health...qualify-for-exemptions-from-obamacare-report/

 

[Tsing Tao]

A story in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal says nearly 90% of all those who were uninsured prior to the enactment of Obamacare will be exempt from having to sign up for coverage.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health...qualify-for-exemptions-from-obamacare-report/

LOL! Brilliant! All that work to insure the uninsured, and it captures a measly 10% of the group it was targeted for in the first place?

Awesome government efficiency!

 

[dbphoenix]

LOL! Brilliant! All that work to insure the uninsured, and it captures a measly 10% of the group it was targeted for in the first place?

Awesome government efficiency!

You may want to try reading it.

 

[Tsing Tao]

You may want to try reading it.

Here it is. What did I miss? First line says it all, no?
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A story in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal says nearly 90% of all those who were uninsured prior to the enactment of Obamacare will be exempt from having to sign up for coverage.

The piece by the Journal’s Stephanie Armour says roughly 4 million of the 30 million who were uninsured will be subject to the individual mandate that is part of the Affordable Care Act. It says the number of exemptions is swelling to the point where the lion’s share of the uninsured will be able to claim a hardship.

A report from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation said the number of those who won’t be exempt will be lower than earlier estimates of 6 million, prompting some to wonder whether the individual mandate is needed at all.

Among the exemptions: Those who have suffered from domestic violence, experienced property damage from a fire or flood or those whose insurance was canceled.

“If your pajamas don’t fit well, you don’t need health insurance,” Armour quotes Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and president of the conservative think tank American Action Forum, as saying.

“It basically waives the individual mandate.”

One major factor is that nearly half the states opted not to expand their Medicaid programs, which may account for a large number of people not receiving insurance.

 

[dbphoenix]

Here it is. What did I miss? First line says it all, no?
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You know what the individual mandate is, right?

You understand the difference between signing up because one wants the coverage and signing up because one is forced to do so?

Put your thinking cap on and try again.

 

[Tsing Tao]

You know what the individual mandate is, right?

You understand the difference between signing up because one wants the coverage and signing up because one is forced to do so?

Put your thinking cap on and try again.

Still doesn't change the fact that the purpose of the law was to make the uninsured get insured. If (up to) 90% of the uninsured are exempt from having to participate then that sounds like a massive fail to me.

What am I missing? I'm happy to change my comment if you can show me where I am wrong or what I have missed.

 

[dbphoenix]

Still doesn't change the fact that the purpose of the law was to make the uninsured get insured. If (up to) 90% of the uninsured are exempt from having to participate then that sounds like a massive fail to me.

What am I missing? I'm happy to change my comment if you can show me where I am wrong or what I have missed.

That they may be exempt from the mandate has nothing to do with whether or not they have signed up or will do so.

 

[Tsing Tao]

That they may be exempt from the mandate has nothing to do with whether or not they have signed up or will do so.

Ok, I'll grant you that. But it still doesn't change the fact that the law was designed to require the uninsured to get insurance. So all that fuss and ramming through the bill and all the headache we've experienced thus far and the decision still rests in the hands of the uninsured.

 

[DHOHHI]

Ok, I'll grant you that. But it still doesn't change the fact that the law was designed to require the uninsured to get insurance. So all that fuss and ramming through the bill and all the headache we've experienced thus far and the decision still rests in the hands of the uninsured.

By the time Odumbo is finished with his exemptions we may have a net loss of those insured. Kansas has seen their uninsured rise by 5.1% since Odumbocare went into effect. And some liberal journalists were all over Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp only to have egg on their faces as his claim was proven to be true.

 

[dbphoenix]

Ok, I'll grant you that. But it still doesn't change the fact that the law was designed to require the uninsured to get insurance. So all that fuss and ramming through the bill and all the headache we've experienced thus far and the decision still rests in the hands of the uninsured.

The decision to become insured has always rested in the hands of the uninsured. The insured are already insured. As to the hardship exemptions from the mandate, that's been there from the beginning.

You may be able to clap your hands with glee at some point in the near future, but this isn't it.