Posted on 03/31/2014 8:26:09 AM PDT by ColdOne
The Los Angeles Times greeted the Obamacare enrollment data on Monday with a striking headline, claiming that "at least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gained coverage," which is 3 million people more than the Obama administration itself claimed last week (a number that was itself highly questionable, since it did not exclude those who had not paid for their new insurance). The Times' analysis, however, is laughable.
The data reported by Noam. N. Levey are not actual counts of enrollees, but a hodgepodge of "state and federal enrollment reports, surveys and interviews with insurance executives and government officials nationwide."
The idea that "interviews with...government officials" who have a political stake in the final numbers could be an objective measure of progress, or combined analytically with enrollment numbers, is ridiculous on its face.
Furthermore, most of the 3.5 million additional enrollees are entirely accounted for by the 3 million "children" who are now insured up to the age of 26 on their parents'
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This was all for 30 million uninsured. Any number short of the President own 30 million number is a failure.
Tomorrow the Obamacare numbers will exceed 70,000,000 paid signups. Pictures will be taken of children bringing bouquets of flowers to a smiling Secretary General Obama, with suitable backlighting sio that he appears to have a halo.
‘sio’ = ‘so’
Doesn’t matter.
In the end it is about money and quality.
If the quality of care suffers the money available will decrease. If the money decreases the quality of care will suffer.
No Federal Government run program has adequate money nor provides quality service.
Obamacare was doomed to failure before the ink was dry..
I love it when the Dear Leader’s plans fall together just in time!
its rather uncanny isnt it!?
Lies and more lies...
Bump
Damn those Republicans and their obstructionism!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.