“The Ohio Department of Insurance has been made aware of attempts to scam Ohioans by capitalizing on confusion around federal health care,” Taylor said. “No one from an official government program should be calling you requesting your personal information.”
The scams underscore widespread ignorance of the law — commonly referred to as Obamacare — reflected in a recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The survey of 1,204 adults conducted last month found 42 percent of respondents didn’t even know the law was intact. Another 12 percent believed the law had been repealed by Congress; 7 percent believed it had been overturned by the Supreme Court; and 23 percent said they didn’t know enough to say whether the health reform law had passed.
The law was passed by Congress in 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court in June last year.
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