Pre-Existing Conditions - If You're over 50, You Haz 'Em.

[MineralMan]

69. More people know nothing about healthcare

and insurance than know something. Most people receive health insurance coverage through their employer. The employer typically pays part of the premium, with the rest showing up as a deduction from every paycheck. That means that most people don't actually know how much their health insurance costs.

Further, most people don't bother following the details of the news. They don't know what's going on in the world or even locally that affects them. When the ACA was passed and signed, most people had no idea what it really meant and how it would affect them. People who are Republicans tend to watch Fox News, which maligned "Obamacare" constantly.

People don't pay attention. They don't even try to understand. They know more about their healthcare coverage than the fact that they have a card they have to show at the doctor's office, and that their employer takes some money out of their pay. They know they have to pay a co-pay. That's it.

So, the bottom line is that most people don't know bupkes about healthcare, and have no interest in knowing more. They think that everyone has coverage like they do and have no concept of how premiums are set up.

That's how they make it to 50+ without knowing anything, really. We should try to educate them, but they probably won't pay any attention to us.