Maybe not so surprising. Have you ever tried to do anything medical in this country without insurance? It’s like stepping outside the Matrix.
You CANNOT enroll in Obamacare in 2018. It was gutted by the GOP in 2017. You can enroll in Trumpcare. But the actual name is the GOP ACA.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the political equivalent of a death-defying escape: former President Barack Obama’s health care law pulled in nearly 11.8 million customers for 2018, despite the Republican campaign to erase it from the books. […]
“If you had asked me a year ago whether enrollment for 2018 would be almost equal to 2017, I would have laughed at you,” said Larry Levitt, who follows the health law for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. […]
The Trump administration also cut the sign-up window in half, slashed the ad budget, and suddenly stopped a major subsidy to insurers, which triggered a jump in premiums.
You can fool all the people part of the time, or you can fool some people all the time, but you cannot fool all people all the time.
— William Groo
Yeah really. Now that folks have had a taste, either personally or through friends and family, I don’t think Republicans will ever get a majority of voters to want to do without. We all are or know someone who’d be or is financial lost or almost lost without insurance.
That’s 11.8 million VOTERS, so you can pretty much SUCK IT, Republicans.
I foresee Sarah Hickabee Sanders’ explanation at this afternoon’s press briefing: “It’s really sad that these 11.8 million extremist members of the Democrat party are going out of their way to attack our president in an outlandishly partisan manner by trying to undermine his bold attempt to fix the dreadful holocaust that is Obamacare.”
Why should anyone be surprised that people who have gotten used to the idea of signing up for insurance keep signing up for insurance? Only AP.
but this:
A drumbeat of advertising is needed, he explained, because the pool of
potential customers is constantly changing. For example, people who lose
employer coverage may not know the health law offers them an option.
It would be a simple matter for the rules involving COBRA notification to include full information about the exchanges, and for the labor department to require companies terminating coverage for existing employees to inform them about the exchanges, but that would require an executive branch willing and able to do its jobs.
Assuming all of them will vote, are you assuming they will vote in their own economic interest?
The survival of the ACA in this Congressional term is one of the bigger accomplishments of #theresistance.
Dear Donnie, more winning??
People who are eligible for health law subsidies would be shielded from such increases, but those who don’t get financial assistance would face another round of premium hikes.
The Trump administration is trying to address that by promoting lower-cost insurance alternatives that don’t offer the comprehensive benefits
No, AP. Trumpp isn’t trying to address the problem of premium hikes. He is trying to exacerbate and exploit the problem.
No, Americans are about as stupid as you can get.