Uninsured or Unexamined?

Campus Report ^ | July 24, 2009 | Mytheos Holt

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Uninsured or Unexamined?

by: Mytheos Holt, July 24, 2009

In the shadow of President Obama and Speaker Pelosi’s increasingly desperate efforts to get health care reform past a recalcitrant Congress, the Cato Institute recently decided to host a discussion highlighting further weaknesses in the President’s public relations campaign. This Monday, July 20th, Cato hosted a discussion at Rayburn Office Building intended to discuss a new study by former Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director June O’Neill, now of the Employment Policies Institute, entitled “Who are the Uninsured?”

O’Neill prefaced the discussion of her study by highlighting the administration’s oft-repeated claim that 47 million people are uninsured. “That number grossly misrepresents the size of the problem,” O’Neill said, adding that “the number of uninsured is not synonymous with those who lack health care because they can’t afford it.”

This assertion was borne out by O’Neill’s talk, which included several statistics with negative implications for the President’s plan. While O’Neill conceded the 47 million statistic, she pointed out that only thirteen million were actually living close to the poverty line, 29% of which had private insurance. Furthermore, O’Neill said, 42.9% of the uninsured were “voluntarily uninsured,” or earned an income high enough that health insurance was affordable, but still chose to forego it.

According to O’Neill’s study, 40% of the uninsured lived in Texas, California, Florida and New York. Furthermore, the remaining 60%, O’Neill said, were concentrated in the Southern States, states which have historically voted against Democratic policies despite being “quite poor.”...

[Erik Latranyi]

Never interrupt a liberal crusade with facts.....they don’t like that.

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Their values are based on how much they feel it is true - not whether it is true. Facts are a devaluation of how they feel, thus evil. ObamaCare Jokes Obama Jokes