Posted on 08/01/2015 7:50:23 AM PDT by lowbridge
Obamacare improved key health-care measurements for millions of Americans, reversing a troubling trend, a new study strongly suggests.
The study found marked gains in the number of people with insurance—as other research has repeatedly confirmed—as well as improved access to doctors and medications, affordable health care and good health status after implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
But the research published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association also noted that the the gains in health coverage and access to care for low-income adults were particularly striking in states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the ACA to include more poor people.
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As always is the case, one must ask liberals AT WHAT COST?
Bull obamastuff.
The AMA is not exactly your collection of intellectuals.
Medicaid? So they included illegals in the study?
Here is the cost. They take your money and pay premiums for people that don’t work, didn’t take advantage of free education and don’t give a damn that it’s your money. If you are young here you have never heard this word but it is COMMUNISM!!
The AMA does not have their heads up their collective @$$e$.....
.....they are progressive conspirators with the regime
Sure - and it’s settled science that Global Warming is our biggest security threat and we are all doomed unless we wipe the scourge of humanity from the face of the Earth....
no, but they are a collection of liberals...and most real doctors cannot stand them.
They’re nothing more than a Washington lobby.
Heres the authors of the study and their affiliations. Note their affiliations with a government department (all of them) and the flaming liberal think tank, the commonwealth fund
Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD 1,2;
Munira Z. Gunja, MPH 2,3; Kenneth Finegold, PhD 2; Thomas Musco, BBA 2
[-] Author Affiliations
1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
2 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
3 The Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York
What we have here in this study is a clear cut example of government propaganda trying to use the AMA as a cover.
Heres the authors of the study and their affiliations. Note their affiliations with a government department (all of them) and the flaming liberal think tank, the commonwealth fund
Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD 1,2;
Munira Z. Gunja, MPH 2,3; Kenneth Finegold, PhD 2; Thomas Musco, BBA 2
[-] Author Affiliations
1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
2 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
3 The Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York
What we have here in this study is a clear cut example of government propaganda trying to use the AMA as a cover.
You mean when you give free enrollments out, people take it?
Wait until they find out that they owe 12,000 because of the high deductible.
People must be healthier now. They don’t go to the doctor as much as they used to. Thank the wonderfully wise tactic of forcing deductibles up to where many more people simply can’t pay the freight and so self medicate. For some this actually does work to their health advantage. I have long substituted Vitamin D-3 for flu shots and colloidal silver for prescription antibiotics to good effect because my deductibles were always high. I am on Medicare now and just getting in to see the doc is complicated and I have learned a lot about herb stuff and alternate stuff and use fish oil and niacin instead of statins, colloidal silver for infections, and have not had any virii in 9 years due to D-3 and more assertive sunshine seeking. My daughter who has not insurance and adjusts her W-2 takeouts to zeroize her IRS account to avoid the fines takes B-12 sublinguals for sciatica and straightened out her severe manic depressive traits with D-3 which she started after dumping xanax and a couple of anti depressants and an anti psychotic. Inability to afford insurance and/or high deductibles coupled with some research which is easy now with the Internet can make many of us a lot healthier.
The AMA is a co-conspirator in Obama's plan to 100% nationalize health care and it wholeheartedly endorsed Obama's "Affordable Health Care" legislation at its inception. Remember the white-coated doctors surrounding Obama when he announced ObamaCare that sunny afternoon in the Rose Garden?
I have never seen any mass movement among doctors to fight for keeping the nation's health care insurance operating under a free enterprise system.
Not all doctors belong to the AMA (they've been dropping out like flies) but they've never been too motivated or interested in fighting to get rid of the ACA.
Why aren't they more activist, more vocal, more organized?
Too busy? Too unaware? Too insulated? Too lazy? Too superior? Too rich?
Too bad !
Leni
Obamacare made *me* uninsured for 2014, but that’s a small price to pay as long as immigrant Somalis can get free checkups.
Study designed to hit states that didn’t expand Medicaid exchanges? Looks like.
I don’t know what strong illicit drugs these boobs are on. My prescription medications have gone through the ROOF since 2012.
They call this “better health”???????
Most of the media is not clear on the reality that there is a difference between “health”, “healthcare”, “affordable healthcare”, and similar terms.
How many/% of pregnancies result in a healthy baby that lives and grows is the #1 measure of health.
Percent of senior citizens who have healthy lives into their 80s and 90s is he #2 measure of health.
Healthcare has nothing to do with “health”. Healthcare is about how many/what % have access to a hospital, to a primary care physician. Inherently, those who live in sparse rural areas have poor healthcare because the population density does not justify a doctor and hospital as close as they are in metro areas.
There is zero correlation between health and healthcare. Many people in rural areas with no access to healthcare have better health than those in urban areas. But not always as there are also rural areas where people have poor health. In other words, there is no correlation, and no negative correlation. Other factors explain differences in health.
Affordable healthcare is a third term. Since LBJ started medicare and medicaid poor citizens have always had affordable healthcare.... if they had healthcare.
The cost to taxpayers is not included in the cost of healthcare when determination of “affordable” is calculated. The cost in lost jobs or dislocations of other costs in the marketplace is not included in the definition of “affordable”. And above all, health is not included in the deerminaton of “affordable”. “Affordable” is all about “from each according to his ability to each according to his need.”
But the above distinctions are irrelevant to the conversation because the media and agenda voices use all words loosely with no distinct meaning to those words.
And it was all FREE! Free I tell you!
QUOTE: “The study found marked gains in the number of people with insurance—as other research has repeatedly confirmed—as well as improved access to doctors and medications, affordable health care and good health status after implementation of the Affordable Care Act.”
The Soviet Union, and most recently Greece, offered access to health care for all comers. It was a disaster in both instances.
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