Posted on 04/01/2014 8:41:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Today is March 31, 2014: in theory, the last day you can sign up for coverage under the subsidized Obamacare insurance exchanges. If you’ve been a regular reader of this space, you know that the numbers routinely paraded by the Obama administration regarding Obamacare website sign-ups don’t tell us much about the actual number of uninsured individuals who have gained coverage. A new study from the RAND Corporation indicates that only one-third of exchange sign-ups were previously uninsured.
The RAND study hasn’t yet been published, but its contents were made available to Noam Levey of the Los Angeles Times. RAND also estimates that 9 million individuals have purchased health plans directly from insurers, outside of the exchanges, but that “the vast majority of these people were previously insured.”
The RAND report appears to corroborate the work of other surveys. Earlier this month, McKinsey reported that 27 percent of those signing up for coverage on the individual market were previously uninsured.
Around 1/4 of exchange enrollees were previously uninsured
One important finding of the McKinsey survey was that the proportion of those who had formally enrolled in coverage, by paying their first month’s premium, was considerably lower among the previously uninsured, relative to the previously insured. 86 percent of those who were previously insured who had “selected a marketplace plan” on the exchanges had paid, whereas only 53 percent of the previously uninsured had.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
He is still a loose cannon on the other half.
And Shrillary says “What difference does it make?”
“The president’s specific words: I’m “really good at killing people,” authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann write”
The chart at the link is very telling.
Not Rand Paul. Rand Corporation.
RAND Corporation
Where’s my $2500?
I was retired on Medicare this year and was still carrying COBRA from my work because my wife is a couple of years younger and not eligible. I found a cheaper policy for my wife, signed up for it and got supplemental insurance for myself. This is probably 2 of the 7 million counts on ObamaCare.
Yeh, pretty much part of the same cabal.....
You are joking right?
The RAND Corporation has been a government intelligence mining operation as old as the CIA.
How many who have been labeled “uninsured”, are veterans who have been getting ALL of their care through the V.A. system, like me?
And, oh yeah, I refuse.
I would want to see more details on the 27% that were previously uninsured and understand what percentage got it because they are being forced to get insurance. The supposed goal was to get insurance for all these people who did not have it and supposedly wanted it. So how many people does that represent? It is far lower than 27% and I doubt they will ever allow us to find that out.
So that means that after spending billions of dollars, only about 10% of the 30 million or so of people that didn’t have insurance before now have it because of Obamacare.
THAT is exactly the data I’ve been waiting for. Start with the number of insured before this nightmare began, then subtract the number who were cancelled, and add back the number of new sign-ups. And make sure to distinguish between Medicare and normal insurance. It’s not complicated, just easy to lie about and claim you don’t have the data (even if you’re the Sec. of HHS). But it is known, and I’ll trust McKinsey to have done the arithmetic well enough.
This chart needs to be plastered on ever conservative website, every blog, every TV show and the stats need to be repeated with Hannity-like monotony until we get the word out about what a sham and fraud this whole Obamacare thing is.
Not about Rand, but I did shoot the gun wrt RAND (interesting list of political actors associated there over the decades. - Amazing that RAND has survived for so long...).
What’s that... 1% of the population.
HAHAHAHAHA!
“make sure to distinguish between Medicare and normal insurance——”
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I think you mean Medicaid,not Medicare. Big difference.
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on the obamacare exchanges or through the traditional channels?
Lets not confuse people with facts!
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