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On Obamacare’s
Last Sign Up Day, Fate of Health Care Law Remains Uncertain
by Maggie Fox www.nbcnews.com
It's the last open
enrollment day for Obamacare, and the six-year-old health care
reform law has never been more popular.
And it's never been more doomed, although Republicans are
still arguing over how and when to replace it — and whether to just tweak the
Affordable Care Act and rename it, or completely repeal it and start over again
from scratch.
This time last year, there was a huge last-ditch effort
from the Obama administration to get people signed up in time to be covered for
2016 without paying an extra tax. This year, the Trump administration is
virtually silent, with only the occasional post on social media and a broad cutback
in pre-paid advertising.
Yet polls show the Affordable Care Act and its goals of
getting health insurance and better health care to more people is growing in
popularity as people come to understand they may be about to lose it.
The 2010 law got about 20 million more people covered by
some form of health insurance. Fewer than 10 percent of Americans — about 28
million people — now have no health insurance.
A poll last week from the Associated Press and NORC
Center for Public Affairs Research found that 56 percent of U.S. adults were
"extremely" or "very" concerned that many will lose health
insurance if there is a repeal.
And the poll found 53 percent want to keep the law in
some form. That's even more than an NBC News/Wall
Street Journal poll taken the week before that found 45 percent
believe the ACA is a good idea. That poll found that 50 percent of those
surveyed have little to no confidence that Republican proposals to replace the
law will make things better.
“The last four weeks have presented a
lot of opportunity for confusion.”
Private healthcare advocacy groups such as Enroll America
say they've seen a surge of interest. "The last official numbers we
received were from the former administration and that suggested that this year's
enrollment is outpacing last year's," said Enroll America's Jennifer
Sullivan.
But callers and people signing up in person are also
asking a lot of questions.
"The last four weeks have presented a lot of
opportunity for confusion," Sullivan told NBC News.
People have heard about a vote in Congress making it
possible to partly repeal the ACA, she said, and they are worried they'll have
the rug pulled out from under them if they carry private health insurance
bought through the exchanges.
Leaked audio from a closed-door Republican meeting in
Philadelphia obtained by
the Washington Post last week revealed that GOP lawmakers are
divided on how to proceed with their promise to "repeal and replace"
the ACA. Republicans expressed concerns about messing with popular aspects of
the law, such as provisions that stop insurance companies from turning away
people who are too sick, capping coverage and letting adult children remain on
their parents' health insurance until age 26.
But the individual mandate — the requirement that people
have insurance or pay a tax — is almost certain to go. And there is much
discussion of changing the way Medicaid, the joint state-federal health
insurance program for low-income and disabled people, is paid for and managed.
The uncertainty is making insurance companies, hospitals,
doctors and health policy analysts nervous.
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