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While Jonathan Gruber seemed to count on what he perceived as the health insurance ignorance of the average American, Kathleen Sebelius admits she was surprised by it…
"One of the things that we have learned with the passage of the law [Obamacare], and certainly with open enrollment in 2014 – and I think this will be true again in 2015 – is that a lot of Americans have no idea what insurance is about, and have no idea, even if they have coverage, what it means, you know, what a deductible is, what a copay is, how to choose a network. Those are complicated terms."
"I think the financial literacy of a lot of people, particularly people who did not have insurance coverage or whose employers chose their coverage and kind of present it to them, is very low — and that has been a sort of stunning revelation. It's not because people hid it from folks. It's because this is a complicated product."
- Former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in Dec. 2 USA Today
Kathleen Sebelius: Jonathan Gruber? Who?
"One of the things that we have learned with the passage of the law [Obamacare], and certainly with open enrollment in 2014 – and I think this will be true again in 2015 – is that a lot of Americans have no idea what insurance is about, and have no idea, even if they have coverage, what it means, you know, what a deductible is, what a copay is, how to choose a network. Those are complicated terms."
"I think the financial literacy of a lot of people, particularly people who did not have insurance coverage or whose employers chose their coverage and kind of present it to them, is very low — and that has been a sort of stunning revelation. It's not because people hid it from folks. It's because this is a complicated product."
- Former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in Dec. 2 USA Today
Kathleen Sebelius: Jonathan Gruber? Who?
