Obama's Health Law: Who Was Helped Most [/barf alert]

New York Times ^ | 29 Oct 2014 | KEVIN QUEALY and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ NYT

[mbarker12474]

Headline: Obama’s Health Law: Who Was Helped Most

Writers: By KEVIN QUEALY and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ Dated: OCT. 29, 2014

Tickler: A new data set provides a clearer picture of which people gained health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Excerpt:

... 10 million more people have insurance coverage this year... Now a large set of data ... The biggest winners from the law include... ... Overall change in uninsured Americans, 2013-14 ...

Over all, about 10 million Americans who had no insurance in 2013 signed up for it this year,...

... several charts... People who live in states that... ... Did not expand Medicaid By race... By age...

Critics of the Affordable Care Act have often warned... By neighborhood income... By gender... By people who live in counties that are... Solidly Democratic Solidly Republican

Despite many Republican voters’ disdain ... Urban and rural...

Over all, the changes tended to

[mbarker12474]

Ugh.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I guess we don’t care who was hurt most.

[MrB]

It’d be far more telling to see whom it harmed.
I’m guessing “responsible conservative voting people who had good plans through their employers” and “conservative business owners paying for their own plans”.

And then there’s the “demographic” analysis, which also would be just as telling...

Remember, the recent gallup poll results stating that 54% say they were harmed, and 26% said they were helped.

[Jewbacca]

Autocrats and certain favored insurance interests.

Also deadbeats with reckless lifestyles.

[DoughtyOne]

And tomorrow those who were most hurt by it, now that they've covered the 2% that were helped.  /s


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[V_TWIN]

Very good point.

[USNBandit]

Hilarious. NYT uses data from an Obama group to say how great Obamacare is.

Lots of unanswered questions. How many of those "newly insured" are on Medicaid? We see net estimations, but how many people that had insurance now don't have insurance? How much money has been sucked out of the economy to pay higher premiums, or taxes to redistribute wealth?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good cartoon

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Over all, about 10 million Americans who had no insurance in 2013 signed up for it this year,...”

Because they lost their insurance..... NY Slimes...seriously?

[caligatrux]

Now a large set of data — from Enroll America, the group trying to sign up people for the program, and from the data firm Civis Analytics — is allowing a much clearer picture.

Enroll America has a vested interest in making sure the data it producers reflects positively on Obamacare.

Can't trust the data, can't trust these results.

[stephenjohnbanker]

WSJ “ many who signed up, never made a payment, or completed the enrollment”

LOL

[Pollster1]

We know who was helped most: insiders with democrat connections and illegals who now get even more taxpayer-subsidized medical care.

[CSM]

“Over all, about 10 million Americans who had no insurance in 2013 signed up for it this year,...”

Lying liars lie. Of course 8 million people lost their coverage under the law. Another 50-100 million people will lose their coverage in the next couple of years.

Yep, destruction is a huge success to locusts.

[DoughtyOne]

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[pallis]

Big insurance was helped. Democrat plantation dwellers were or were not helped, but those of us who carry the load of higher premiums, bigger deductibles and less service are completely screwed, raped, economically assaulted.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I have followed him for years.”

So have I, and thanks to you, I never miss one.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks SJB

[Buckeye McFrog]

Don’t forget incompetent IT consultants with extraordinarily high hourly rates.

[digger48]

Can’t remember where I saw it, but the actual number of those that didn’t have insurance who are now paying for a policy is a tad over 400,000

The rest are medicaid and those who lost their policy due to O’care

I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I remember that wrong

[vpintheak]

What a crock-o-poo!
AMERICA has been hurt by this crap law!