106,000
Americans have put an Obamacare plan in their shopping cart on one of the state
or federal Affordable Care Act websites. It is not that 106,000 people have
paid for a healthcare plan. The federal government has decided to tabulate
those who have paid for an account and those who have merely selected an
account without checking out from the website as having gotten a healthcare
plan.
Less than
27,000 have actually checked out from the federal government’s own healthcare
exchange website. Meanwhile, 5 million Americans have lost healthcare coverage
thanks to the Affordable Care Act. It will, we now know, take longer to get the
website fixed than it took to win World War II — and even then the Obama
Administration intends to consider it a success if only 80% of Americans can
log on. Imagine if Amazon.com considered it a success if only 80% of its customers
could check out.
Many of those
who have not lost healthcare coverage are seeing rates escalate rapidly. Some
young men are finding out that Obamacare now affords them one trip per year to
a gynecologist and will cover their maternity needs. Complicating matters,
Obamacare lets adults stay on their parents’ insurance to age 26. But,
Obamacare needs these same young adults to sign up for their own plans to prop
up the system.....To Read More....
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