Christopher Flavell, a member of Bloomburg's Editorial Board has a great post up today at Bloomberg.com that discusses the popular conservative tactic of encouraging young, uninsured people to skip the sign up periods for health insurance via their State exchanges, scheduled to open in October.
This campaign would be amusing, if it didn't stand a significant chance of actually persuading people to sacrifice their own health and finances for somebody else's political cause. An April poll found that 42 percent of Americans didn't know that Obamacare was still law, and even doctors don't understand how the exchanges will work. Those seeking to mislead Americans about what Obamacare means for them are looking at a promising landscape.
Read the whole thing, click here...
Also, if you missed Sarah Kliff's great article about college conservatives being urged to burn mock Obamacare registration cards, you can read that right here...
Both are solid reads...
Sources:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-02/the-big-lie-goes-after-obamacare.html?wpisrc=nl_wonk_b
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/01/inside-the-obamacare-resistance/
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) — often referred to as "health care reform" or "Obamacare" — brought in robust health insurance reforms which started to roll out in 2010. By 2014, almost all of the law's rules and regulations should be in place. The ACA will affect several parties - the uninsured, Medicaid clients, employers, health insurers, seniors as well as the currently insured.
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