With just two weeks remaining before Obamacare's big deadline, more than a third of uninsured Americans (34 percent) say they don't plan on buying health insurance, despite the law's requirement to do so, according to a Bankrate.com report out Monday.
The enrollment deadline is March 31.
Though cost was cited as the primary reason for forgoing health insurance (by 41 percent of the uninsured), 17 percent of uninsured Americans say their opposition to PPACA is the reason for not obtaining coverage, while 13 percent said they don't need insurance because they're healthy.
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