Posted on 09/16/2015 2:24:19 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The Census Bureau has finally released definitive statistics on the number of uninsured in 2014 and the news is not good for Obamacare (unless, of course, you have abysmally low expectations for government performance). The population-wide uninsured rate fell from 14.5% in calendar year 2013 to 11.7% in 2014. The total number of uninsured dropped from 45.2 million in 2013 to 36.7 million in 2014–a net of 8.5 million who gained coverage [1].
There’s 2 things to note about this new number, which is far more definitive than the previous numbers put out by Urban Institute, RAND Corporation, Commonwealth Fund, Gallup or even the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The Census Bureau figures released today that I’ve cited above come from the American Community Survey, which is based on a survey of about 3.5 million households (about 8.8 million people). In contrast, the NHIS surveys only 87,500 people and all the other surveys focus exclusively on adults, hence cannot provide an accurate population-wide estimate of changes in the number of uninsured.
Moreover, these private surveys also are considerably smaller: Gallup surveys less than 44,000 adults 18 and over, Urban Institute samples about 7,500 non-elderly adults, Commonwealth Surveys less than 6,200 non-elderly adults and RAND surveys less than 2,500 non-elderly adults. . .
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The federal government only rewards failure with bigger budgets.
Who you gonna believe, Obama or your lying eyes?
Three cheers for Sh**Care
The best part will be when the Cadillac tax takes full effect. It’ll be all over but the crying.
Perfectly understandable when we remember that “built to fail nobamacare” is the first step towards single payer.
Literary Digest, 1936....
How many don’t respond to the ACS??
[3] Strictly speaking, this estimate of coverage gains was relative to the number of uninsured prior to passage of Obamacare. But as the Gallup figures cited by Charles Gaba clearly show, the adult uninsured rate rose from 16.4% in the first quarter of 2010 to 18.0% by the third quarter of 2013, so if those responsible for Obamacare Facts had taken this into account, they presumably would have predicted a net reduction in uninsured between 2013 and 2014 even higher than 15 million.
Funny how the percentage increase of uninsured adults INCREASED from 2010 to 2013, yet we never heard a peep.
The Obama team is really good at helping statistics lie.
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