Posted by Tina
President Obama recently claimed enrollment success for healthcare enrollment which began at 4.2 million at the beginning of March and has now reached five million with two weeks left to reach the six million mark, just a million short of the seven million enrollee goal. Huh?
We have to give the President marks, he’s hanging in there with that positive attitude!
However, there is a potential problem with the numbers. Although it may be true that five million people have entered all of the required information and signed up successfully if they fail to actually pay their premiums the program cannot be sustained.
The New York Times reported last month that 20% of enrollees had not actually paid their premiums. Last week MSNBC reported that state by state reporting showed some states with payments fairly high but in others nearly half had not paid.
While we understand and applaud the Presidents positive attitude we would hope that at some point he has the good sense to admit the program just will not work so that measures can be taken to replace Obamacare with reforms to healthcare that will improve the system. Maybe this time Congress could use the ideas of the full body to hammer out the best reforms possible for every American? That would be a refreshing change. If Obama fails to meet this critical goal it will be time to scrap it and do something else.
Obamacare is more unpopular with Americans than ever before.
Astoundingly it is even unpopular with the uninsured, a claim backed up by a February Kaiser poll:
Remember this chart (see chart at link) when Democrats continue to talk about the need to keep ObamaCare but just fix its “problems.” The main reason offered for allowing the government to force everyone to participate in the command health-care economy was to make it easier for the uninsured to get coverage. If that’s the case, why do the uninsured actually hate ObamaCare more than the rest of America?
I don’t know, I don’t think it’s surprising that the uninsured don’t like Obamacare. Why would a group that had chosen not to get health insurance suddenly decide to spend money on something they weren’t interested in before?
If the goal of seven million paid enrollees is reached the President will have achieved his immediate sign up goal and he will have something to crow about. But if the numbers don’t add up, after all he’s doing and all he’s spending to enroll young people, will the President finally be totally honest with the American people?