Defiant Americans Refusing ObamaCare

by JASmius

That would be the uninsured - you know, the 47 million-cum-12 million Americans on whose behalf the Left's insatiable lust-drive for socialized medicine was ostensibly undertaken:

A third of Americans currently uninsured still have no intention of buying health coverage even though they are required to do so by the [Una]ffordable Care[-Less] Act, according to Bankrate's latest Health Insurance Pulse survey.

Thirty-four percent contacted by telephone said they still have no intention of buying insurance. Most, 41%, cited cost as their reason, while 17% said they oppose ObamaCare and 13% said they are healthy and don't need insurance.

Fifty-six percent of those surveyed said they do plan to purchase health coverage.

"We did all this discombobulating for nothing, because the uninsured are not signing up," Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto said on Monday.

"It's hard to generalize, but for some of these folks, it's a case of, 'I'm in pretty good health, I don't think about these things, I know I can't afford it now,'" Michael Morrisey, professor of health economics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health told Bankrate. "I think it's just rolling past them, and they're not giving it a whole lot of attention."

Well, then, the solution to this problem is obvious: the fine tax isn't nearly large enough.  These lousy ingrates must be soaked, squeezed, punished so severely for their inaction that they will be bankrupted if they don't.  That is the purpose of the Individual Mandate, after all - to force the young and healthy to buy ten times more health insurance than they need, none of which they actually want, so that the old and sick can be covered without the fascized insurance carriers tumbling down the venerated "death spiral".

Oh, but wait, didn't The One just illegally and unconstitutionally delay the Individual Mandate for another two and a half years?

Oops.

Almost as if a death spiral is what he wants, with all his "fellow Americans" free-falling into Medicaid, or as he thinks of it....single-payer.

See?  Barack Obama doesn't do everything out of partisan political motivations.