WASHINGTON – A recent poll shows that Americans’ patience with the new health care law is wearing thin.
Gallup conducted telephone interviews between December 3-4, with a random sample of 1,017 adults. The findings showed that fifty-two percent favor scaling back (20%) or repealing (32%) the law, similar to the 50% from mid-October.
Since the Affordable Care Act kicked into gear and the associated web site was launched on October 1st, thousands of Americans have signed up for health coverage through HealthCare.gov, but many people have struggled with technical issues on the site. Many gave up or were unsuccessful in signing up for coverage, which is mandatory.
According to the federal government, if you don’t have coverage in 2014, you’ll have to pay a penalty of $95 per adult, $47.50 per child, or 1% of your income (whichever is higher). The fee increases every year. Some people may qualify for an exemption to this fee. If you enroll by March 31, 2014, you won’t have to pay the fee for any month before your coverage began.
It should read WORKING americans want health care law changed.
I talked to a person today who had signed up for Iowa Works. He is on disability and needs the insurance. He got nervous when they didn’t bill him and made some calls. He had gotten confirmation that he was covered but when he finally got through after many, many calls he was told he wasn’t registered. They registered him over the phone. Now he is worried about paying for it as he has not been billed and is running out of time. It is a good thing he called as of the 1st of the year he would not have had insurance. He was letting his current health insurance go because the new stuff was cheaper. He said he is gambling on not going to the hospital because it doesn’t cover near as much. Three days in the hospital can mean you owe 30K with 70/30.
But many of us could see this coming, did everything to delay the whole frickin mess for a year but NOOOOOOOOOO….we had to pursue it because it’s our signature venture. Nothing could delay it….but those in the White House and most of
Congress, House etc won’t be inconvienced by it. They will see to that. Meanwhile all these people herded like a bunch of cattle to join up and now are all in limbo. Too late now, we ALL must pay because it couldn’t be stopped. What a mess.
It was reported today that people who have signed up will not have insurance because the web site is so flawed it did not pass on the information to the insurance company’s. The whole program is a disaster but the braindead sheeple won’t admit i.