Fox Nation apparently lifted a Breitbart.com post without taking the time to look at the Gallup poll Breitbart based its writing on. Either that or the “fair and balanced” website knowingly posted the headline, “Gallup: The Uninsured Reject ObamaCare” when that’s not what the Gallup poll found.

If you go to the Gallup website, you’ll find that the poll is really about visiting the federal health care exchange website. Got that? It’s not about getting insurance, it’s about using the website. The same website whose glitches have become so talked about of late.

Fox Nation, quoting a November 8 Breitbart article, writes:

One of the major selling points for using ObamaCare to disrupt our health care system (that polls showed up to 80% of Americans were satisfied with) was to insure the uninsured. But according to this poll, only a very small minority of that small minority is even interested in obtaining insurance.

Actually, that “small minority …even interested in obtaining insurance” is about three quarters, according to Gallup. It’s less than a quarter who plan to do so through an exchange. And it’s about a quarter of the uninsured who say they are more likely to pay the fine than get insurance.

Gallup wrote in its November 8 post:

Gallup previously found that less than half of uninsured Americans (44%) who plan to get insurance say they will do so through an exchange, and about one in four say they are more likely to pay a fine instead of getting insurance. These findings help explain the low percentage of the uninsured who have attempted to access the exchange websites.

Furthermore, it’s clear to Gallup – and probably anyone else not looking for an excuse to proclaim the Affordable Care Act a failure – that the low use of the website may not reflect a low enrollment in health insurance:

Still, the fact that less than a quarter of uninsured Americans who say they plan to get insurance through an exchange have visited one so far suggests that other factors are at work. It may be that many uninsured Americans are waiting to try out the health exchange websites until their highly publicized problems are fixed, or they may simply be putting off decisions about getting insurance until later.

 Even if the uninsured are not signing up for health insurance in big numbers, this poll was about something else altogether.