time to start looking at fixing the faulty elements of obamacare? what we have learned is that this is structurally flawed. there is no way to fiction this marketplace except to take the health insurance aca marketplace down. right now when you are looking at in the 2018 insurance year. 44% of the nation s counties will have only one or no provider of a marketplace understand plan. so that means that you are putting individual in those counties in the cross-hairs, if you will, for irs penalties and with lack of access to a marketplace compliant plan. so it s unfair to penalize them. and it s unfair to turn to them and say others have subsidies, but you don t because you have no marketplace plan. it is 44% of our nation s
previously uninsured who are selecting a marketplace plan, quote/unquote. but generally speaking, what the data we ve seen is the vast majority of people who were previously insured have paid their first month s premium. the people who were previously uninsured haven t. and if you don t pay that first month s premium, you don t actually get coverage. you get sick, you have a medical bill and haven t paid that first month s premium, the insurer won t be there to pay it for you. so it remains to be seen whether or not a lot of those things who were previously uninsured will pay that premium and thereby get coverage. could be less than a quarter of people, could be an eighth who are actually covered who were previously uninsured. the president from the very beginning talked about, and those numbers fluctuated. 30 million uninsured. 40 million uninsured. that s what we re going to do, it s going it be universal coverage. i m just asking myself, if the goal was to get 40 million people in
maybe a third who are previously uninsured and selecting a marketplace plan. but the data we have sewn that the vast majority of people previously insured paid the first month premium and those who are uninsured haven t. you don t get coverage if you don t pay. if you get sick and have a bill, the insurer will not pay it for you. it remains to be sewn if they will pay the premium and there by get coverage. it could be a ateth that are actually covered and previously uninsured. the president, talked about 30 million fourth million. if the goal is to get 40 million insured and we are at 7 million.
maybe a third who are previously uninsured and selecting a marketplace plan. but the data we have sewn that the vast majority of people previously insured paid the first month premium and those who are uninsured haven t. you don t get coverage if you don t pay. if you get sick and have a bill, the insurer will not pay it for you. it remains to be sewn if they will pay the premium and there by get coverage. it could be a ateth that are actually covered and previously uninsured. the president, talked about 30 million fourth million. if the goal is to get 40 million insured and we are at 7 million.