OBAMACARE: 69% of the youth unaware they MUST get insurance!

[Woman of Wolves]

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A new Gallup poll has found that 25 percent of today's uninsured plan to stay that way.
The poll, released on September 30, noted that two in three of those surveyed said they "planned" to get insurance rather than pay the small fine at the end of the year. The poll further found that under half intend to take advantage of the state or federal insurance exchanges when they are finally up and running.
It should be noted that that this result was based on what people say they intend to do, not what they have actually done or are even in the process of doing.
Statistics worsened in the important 18 to 29 age bracket. Sixty-nine percent of the youth demographic were unaware they were required to get health insurance by January 1, 2014. This is the age group that Obama is hoping will foot the bill for the rest of America.
In other bad news for Obamacare, 62 percent said they were "not too familiar" or "not at all familiar" with the Obamacare exchanges being set up by the federal and state governments.
Such unfamiliarity grew among those currently uninsured today. Among the uninsured 72 percent said that are not familiar with the exchanges Obama is setting up.
Gallup also found that knowledge of all aspects of Obamacare was quite low for those in the youth demographic.
Gallup surveyed 5,099 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The survey was conducted from September 17-26.

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[Woman of Wolves]

Posting this too, for those here who are also unaware:

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Under the law, Americans must be insured starting in 2014 or pay a penalty assessed on their tax returns.

Shortly after the legislation passed in 2010, the Congressional Budget Office, working alongside the Joint Committee on Taxation, estimated that in 2016 roughly four million people a year would opt to pay the penalty instead of getting coverage. On Wednesday, the CBO and JCT revised that figure up to six million, citing legislation passed since 2010 as well as the weaker economic outlook.

Of those people who opt for the penalty, 10% are projected to be below the federal poverty level for 2016, which the CBO and JCT estimate will stand at about $12,000 for an individual or $24,600 for a family of four.

In 2014, the penalty will be no more than $285 per family, or 1% of income, whichever is greater. In 2015, the cap rises to $975, or 2% of income. And by 2016, it reaches $2,085 per family, or 2.5% of income, whichever is greater.

The dollar amounts for a single adult would be $95, $325 and $695 during that same time period.

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[x-Garethp-x]

That's just weird. Over here you're not REQUIRED to get insurance, you already HAVE insurance, it's automatic. It's only when you start earning above $60k that you need to get private insurance, or face a levy on your tax

Is that not how it works over there?

[Lupa Fangs]

x-Garethp-x

That's just weird. Over here you're not REQUIRED to get insurance, you already HAVE insurance, it's automatic. It's only when you start earning above $60k that you need to get private insurance, or face a levy on your tax

Is that not how it works over there?

Kinda wished that is how it worked here. Only if you live with your parents and are under a certain age are you covered IF your parents work. I had to get insurance.

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I wasn't aware that the fine was going to be every year. What about youths that don't have any income AT ALL? that sounds like a bad idea. I know a few that are above the age that the parents can cover them and they still live with them because they can't earn any money in any way.

[Old Blue Collar Joe]

How is this surprising anyone? Those of us that were against this goat ******** from the beginning knew this was the end result, and pointed it out regularly, to be shouted down by the obamanauts. When we proposed a flat 2% across the board tax to fund health care, NOT an insurance 'exchange' which is democrat code for 'sucking the dicks of the insurance companies' we were told that would be 'mean and hurtful' to the poor.
So...a 2.5% fine is better? One that, rather than taking a couple of dollars out of your check every week, instead whacks you for the entire amount at one time is better?
The democrats accomplished their goal, and had the support of a lot of Americans who had no clue. They put their foot on their throats, and the entire time act as if it is not them doing so.

[Divine_Malevolence]

x-Garethp-x

That's just weird. Over here you're not REQUIRED to get insurance, you already HAVE insurance, it's automatic. It's only when you start earning above $60k that you need to get private insurance, or face a levy on your tax

Is that not how it works over there?

Republicans would never allow that.
This watered down version was made basically to appeal to them and they're still shutting down the government over it. Something like everyone having insurance off the bat would cause them to rewrite physics and shut down the sun to stop it.

[shapeshifter1000]

that and another large part of this bill is that people like me who have diabetes and people like my parents who both have terminal illnesses will have to either pay a extremely unreasonable premium or not receive care at all. The government is telling people that they are too sick for care and that is wrong.

[xdivision_whitey]

Yep because they'll be fined and then imprisoned if they don't get insurance. But wait there's more these exchanges people are signing up for as of right now are getting turned away. Don't know if it's a glitch or some underline detail.

[Entropic Marionetta]

Already insured. No ******** given.

[Prince Aegon Targaryen VI]

Not American. Don't care.

[Chibi Halo]

x-Garethp-x

That's just weird. Over here you're not REQUIRED to get insurance, you already HAVE insurance, it's automatic. It's only when you start earning above $60k that you need to get private insurance, or face a levy on your tax

Is that not how it works over there?

Insurance companies here don't work on a national scale. It's a state by state deal and even then what you have in one state might not be right for another state. I live in Illinois and my niece is currently in Massachusetts for school. She had to get separate insurance through her school, because their law makes it mandatory (and it's what the ACA was modeled after) to have their state approved insurance. So kids going to school there from other states and countries have to learn all the new rules for health insurance. Good thing places like MIT offer student policies. The point is insurance companies don't want to give up their so called state by state monopolies. You buy insurance through say Blue Cross Illinois or Humana in New York or State Farm in California and not just Humana or Blue Cross from one national office.

[XxTheSmittenKittenxX]

Hope ya'll have fun paying a fee for not having healthcare insurance (and the fee keeps on going up EVERY year you don't have it, sooo...). biggrin

[Mardi Gras Gunslinger]

Young Griff Connington

Not American. Don't care.

American. Don't care.

[Prince Aegon Targaryen VI]

Mardi Gras Gunslinger

Young Griff Connington

Not American. Don't care.

American. Don't care.

Good on ya, m8.

[Honey of the South]

Crap. They didn't teach us how to do stuff like that in high school. And why are we the ones expected to essentially foot the whole damn thing? I wish America had a health care system similar to that of Canada or the UK, or wherever.