OBAMACARNAGE: REALITY VERSUS BS

Anew survey fromMcKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm thathas been conducting monthly assessments of the exchange-eligiblepopulation, reveals that the White House\’s numbers regarding peoplewho have gained healthcare coverage are pure fiction.

In February, 2,096 eligible respondents were surveyed. Only 48 percent of them had signed up for a 2014 healthcare plan, and three-fifths of that 48 percent were people who liked, and were able to keep, their old plans. The other two-fifths were the ones who enrolled on the exchanges. Regarding the latter group, 27 percent of them had been uninsured in 2013, and almost half of the 27 percent still hadn\’t paid a premium. Of the remaining 73 percent who had been previously insured, 86 percent of them had paid their premiums.

When the percentages are combined, a far more accurate-and truthful-picture emerges. Only 19 percent of those who had paid their premiums were previously insured, and of those the Obama administration is characterizing as sign-ups, only 14 percent are enrollees who were previously uninsured. Thus, despite the administration boasts about 3.3 million “gaining” healthcare coverage, only 472,000 are previously uninsured exchange enrollees as of February 1.

Far more important, McKinsey & Company\’s survey then inquired why those who didn\’t sign up for a healthcare plan avoided doing so. Out of the five possible reasons for people failing to enroll, 50 percent chose, “I could not afford to pay the premium.”

Thus, the central premise of ObamaCare, the heavily promoted notion that leaving millions of Americans unable to afford health insurance was a national disgrace, is revealed to be an utter fraud. It was a fraud buttressed by a 2009 Harvard survey that contended as many as 45,000 people per year died from a lack of coverage. That research was subsequently debunked by other healthcare experts, but it mattered little to Democrats determined to pass a so-called affordable healthcare bill by any means necessary – including serial lying President Obama himself.