Democratic Lawmaker Claims ObamaCare Enrollment Low Because Most Americans Think It Was Repealed

I know, the article title kind of confuses me too! Sorry, but I honestly didn’t make that up.

Despite the Obama administration’s huge multi-million dollar ObamaCare public relations campaign, at your tax dollar expense, one Democrat lawmaker says she thinks Americans are not signing up for ObamaCare because they think the law was repealed.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., told MSNBC on Monday she believes one of the reasons enrollment for the new health care law is much lower than expected is Republican lawmakers have convinced the public it is no longer a law. She said it has been very difficult for the Democrats to break through that misconception.

“What we have been battling now is, first, every time the House couldn’t think of anything else to do, it had a big debate on repealing ObamaCare,” Norton said. “So, there are millions of people out there who think it was repealed.” Norton said she believes once the fine for not having health insurance kicks in more people will realize they must have insurance and will sign up for ObamaCare.

You can’t make this stuff up folks; those are her words! I guess that is the democratic way of enforcing a law most don’t know exist according to her statement; take their money, that will wake them up I guess! What a pleasant way to be informed it is a law if we actually didn’t know it was. Please take more of our hard-earned dollars to fine or tax us, whatever it is, especially after you’ve taken those multi-millions of dollars to advertise what we don’t know about.

However, a recent poll found that 40 percent of Americans believe ObamaCare will eventually be repealed and 54 percent believe it will remain law, suggesting that 94 percent of Americans are aware it is currently the law of the land.

I’m not going to quote enrollment numbers as I’ve no idea what any of them mean and they fluctuate from report to report, but one thing is for sure; we’re nowhere near the numbers needed to either meet the administrations stated goals or to pay for the program itself. Even now, the administration says those were not their goals, those numbers came from various organizations they have no control over.

With the inability to obtain real and accurate numbers out of the administration relative to enrollment, it is actually almost impossible to determine the actual number of enrollees and the numbers you do get are confusing. The definition of an enrollee also varies. Is an enrollee someone who has placed a plan in their shopping basket, or someone who has actually submitted their application, or someone who has submitted their application and actually had it go all the way through the system to a particular insurance company, or someone who has done all that and have actually mailed a check to the insurance company which is when you have actually truly purchased a health insurance plan?

The Obama administration states that through the end of December they have 2.1 million applicants for insurance through healthcare.gov and different state exchanges together. Again, I’ve no idea which of those categories above is qualifying that number but even if it’s actual purchased plans, it is still well below the 3.3 million that were originally targeted. The next question it raises is exactly how many of those 2.1 million are a part of the 5 million plus American’s who lost their insurance because of ObamaCare itself, or were those who lost their insurance a part of the 3.3 million goal in the first place since it has been revealed that they knew those policies were going to be cancelled?

Yep, I’m baffled too! Then, are those 2.1 million insurance plans that will be paid for, or are they plans which will be under Medicaid which is not paid for and simply gets paid for by the American taxpayers?

Don’t worry, it gets worse if you really want to try to figure it out, which I’ll admit, is way beyond me! What I do know is that we’re not getting anything near accurate information from our government. Particularly from the administration side. That leads me to the conclusion that there is much that is being hidden from us. My imagination runs wild when trying to figure out why they’d do that.

One thing I do know, the low response is definitely not due to Republicans telling Americans that ObamaCare is not a law.