Those Bassards..!! 😠

A Slick Marketing Campaign Won't Save ObamaCare

Uninsured: The White House recently released details about how it plans to market ObamaCare to the uninsured. What it reveals is that most of them don't want what the administration is trying to force them to buy.

In a series of slides posted on the Health and Human Services' website, the administration explains how it plans to market ObamaCare to the uninsured.

Let's leave aside for a minute the oddity of this effort. Its backers have endlessly touted ObamaCare as a miracle of modern government that will at long last bring insurance within reach of 48 million people who desperately want it. Besides, the law mandates that everyone buy ObamaCare coverage.

So why the need for a big marketing push at all?

Once you look at the marketing slides the HHS has produced, you find the answer.

It turns out that the Democrats and the Obama administration apparently didn't bother to investigate who these uninsured people actually are before they forced through a $1.8 trillion plan to help them.

What they've learned since is that more than half of the 48 million who the government says are uninsured aren't interested in health insurance, which is why they don't bother to buy it in the first place.

The administration now admits that vast numbers of the uninsured will be unlikely to respond to ObamaCare's marketing pitches.

The biggest market segment identified by HHS, in fact, is what it describes as "healthy and young," who make up 48% of the uninsured population.

They have "a low motivation to enroll" because they are in "excellent to very good health" and so "take health for granted."

Plus, as the HHS has apparently just discovered, most of them say that cost is the main reason they don't have coverage.

Then there are the "passive and unengaged," which make up 15% of the uninsured and also have a "low motivation to enroll" because they "live for today." They also cite cost as a key factor.

The problem, of course, is that ObamaCare will make insurance vastly more expensive for many of those who fall into these groups by larding on new benefit mandates and placing limits on premium-lowering deductions and co-pays. It will also introduce insurance market rules that force the young and healthy to subsidize premiums for those older and sicker.

State insurance commissioners have been warning the administration about how all this will cause "rate shocks."

And even ObamaCare's backers admit that its subsidies won't compensate for all the new costs these rules will impose, making it even less likely that these groups will sign.

Indeed, the only group likely to rush into ObamaCare's arms are the 29% who the HHS says are "sick, active and worried" who will have the "highest predicted responsiveness" to mass media ads.

If only these people sign up, ObamaCare's premiums will spiral out of control, as the pool of insured gets sicker and more expensive.

And that, in turn, will cause still more of the young and healthy to drop insurance and taxpayer subsidy costs to skyrocket.

Democrats may think that a big, slick marketing campaign can change all this. Our guess is that it will be about as effective as Ford's was for the Edsel.



http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/040313-650381-slick-marketing-campaign-wont-save-obamacare.htm#ixzz2PcFug7Af 


Yet...they're not gonna stop this...it was all about precedent.

Those Bassards..!! 😠

^^Wait, you mean an Economics 101 class concept, that consumers only buy what they value, may be at play in why many uninsured don't have health insurance?

Too bad most our elected officials and probably all civil servants woudl fail a basic economics test. As they would a civics test on the Constitution.

"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?"

Great now DC has a two drink minimum now too?

Holy F#@K!

I wonder what the accuracy rate in here on the predictions regarding Obamacare are.

Well, the people who said that premiums would go up the minute it was imposed get an accuracy rating of 100%.

And when Krugman said that in order to pay for healthcare in this country (mind you that this was in a speech well after the passage of Obamacare) it would require "sales taxes and death panels," I'm thinking Sarah Palin was a tad ahead of the curve.

Your point being...?

Too bad Palin didn't have communist backers pusher her acceptance/finances/grades tgrough college and politics then the lemmings would believe her not Soetoro.

RICKAMAVEN would get a soft serve in his pants every time he turned MSNBC on.

Hopefully the OP is true, and we will all get relief from this ACA scam.

THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENT UNCLE RICK!
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Well, if you didn't understand it, maybe you should have used a magnifying glass?

Seriously Rick, it doesn't surprise me at all that you don't understand a lot of stuff. You're also the same guy who admitted he voited for Idi Amin Jr. because he was black.

Although, I'd be careful about signing up for Obamacare. Given some of your inane rants, some Obamacare coordinator might think dementia has set in, and they might schedual you to go to one of those "end of life" doctors. The one where old folks check in, but they don't ever "check out"...at least breathing...

MR PUTZ.

BEFORE I TOOK ANY ADVICE FROM THE LIKE OF YOU AND YOUR ILK, YOU DO HAVE ILKS,

DON'T YOU?I WOULD HAVE "DNR" TATOOED ON MY FORE HEAD.

I HAVE NO FORESKIN LEFT



Z, PLEASE FWWD HIM I BELIEVE HIS SUGAR IS LOW.

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where do you get ilks..?? do they bite..?? 😕

DNR tatooed on your forehead? You belong to the Department of Natural Resources?

I guess that explains why Purina makes Rickamaven Feed....

IS THAT WHAT HAPPNED TO YOUR FORESKINS..?? [HUH]

Not sure what you're talking 'about, Ricardo, but good to see you again regardless.