Negative ads drive ObamaCare enrollment?

[Karl]

Niam Yaraghi | July 9, 2014 7:30am

Have the Anti-Obamacare Ads Backfired?

According to the recent report of nonpartisan analysts Kantar Media CMAG, ACA opponents have spent 450 million dollars on anti-Obamacare ads so far. Spending on negative ads outpaced positive ones by more than 15 to 1. This map shows the spending on negative ads in each state.

How Have Ads Impacted the ACA Enrollment in Different States?

I used the ACA enrollment data released by the Department of Health and Human Services, to calculate the ACA enrollment ratio as the number of enrollees divided by the total number of people who could have potentially enrolled in the ACA. This number includes the ones who were either uninsured or had purchased private insurance. Although more than 8 million Americans have signed-up to purchase health insurance through the marketplaces during the first open enrollment period, this nationwide number masks tremendous variation in participation across states.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techt...a-ads-backfire

[Karl]

How right-wing TV attacks may have helped ACA

Thursday, Jul 10, 2014 11:10 AM EDT

Anti-Obamacare ads backfire: How right-wing TV attacks may have helped ACA

Republicans and the Koch brothers spent millions on anti-ACA ads. A new study suggests they boosted enrollment

Simon Maloy

The air war over the Affordable Care Act has always been a lopsided affair. The passion and resources of the law’s detractors far outweighed those of the law’s defenders, and that imbalance was reflected in the obscene amounts of money thrown into anti-Obamacare advertisements. A report released in May found that a total of $445 million had been spent on TV ads mentioning the Affordable Care Act, and spending on anti-ACA ads outpaced pro-ACA ads by 15-to-1. The 58,000 positive ads that were aired up to that point were dwarfed by the 880,000 ads produced by the law’s opponents.

The obvious question raised by this huge spending disparity is how it would impact the competitive Senate races across the country, which are being fought largely over Obamacare. The people funding the anti-Obamacare spots – like, say, the Koch brothers – have an obvious political agenda: to take down the Democrats who support it. But as the law was implemented late last year, it transitioned from being just a political fight to a real-world struggle. The success of the law depended on people actually signing up for coverage, and Obamacare opponents wanted those enrollment figures to be low. So what impact did the negative advertising have on Obamacare enrollment?

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/10/anti...ve_helped_aca/

[Karl]

Uninsured rate plummets under ObamaCare

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

The number of Americans lacking health insurance has plummeted this year, a trio of surveys released Thursday found.

The reports -- conducted by three major research organizations -- aim to measure the early effect of Obamacare's individual mandate. Most Americans were required to obtain health insurance starting this year.

Here are the results:
-- Urban Institute: The uninsured rate fell to 13.9% in June, down from 17.4% at the end of last year. Some 8 million adults gained coverage.

-- Gallup: Americans lacking health coverage fell to 13.4% in the second quarter, down from 17.1% at the close of 2013. This is the lowest quarterly rate recorded since Gallup and Healthways began tracking the share of uninsured Americans in 2008.

-- Commonwealth Fund: Only 15% of American adults were uninsured in the second quarter, down from 20% in the third quarter of last year. About 9.5 million fewer adults were uninsured, led mainly by young adults age 19 to 34, who saw their uninsured rate drop to 18%, from 28%.

While the results vary, these new reports add weight to the view that the Obamacare exchanges are fulfilling health reform's prime directive: reducing the number of uninsured Americans. The first official government figures will be released later this year, while the Census Bureau's report on 2014 uninsured rates won't come out until the following fall.



http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/10/news...html?iid=HP_LN

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Video: Too poor to get ObamaCare?
Why?
Texas - Within Texas no Medicaid Expansion as granted under ObamaCare Law .

...but the video gives that answer somewhere after the introductory paragraphs. ...then complicates the info by going into an explanation of why the Texans cannot qualify for health coverage that may confuse the citizen.

The real reason the Texans cannot receive coverage Texas Governor Perry refuses to allow Medicaid expansion within the State. Under Medicaid Expansion the Texans would have had coverage.

Many GOP controlled states, like Governor Perry's GOP controlled Texas, have not accepted the Medicaid Expansion offered under the ObamaCare Law and therefore condemn many of their residents to lack of healthcare.