Posted on 01/19/2014 7:11:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Everybody knows that red state officials aren’t enthusiastic about Obamacare. Some of them are even trying to undermine it. But are they succeeding? Are they actually holding back the law? Here are two reasons to think the answer is yes—one somewhat ambiguous, one very clear.
The first—the ambiguous one—is some information that became a little more than a week ago, when the federal government released new information about the people enrolling in private Obamacare insurance plans. The data doesn’t reveal a lot of things. It doesn’t say how many people have actually paid premiums, for example. And it doesn’t say how many people had insurance before. But it does break down the numbers by state. For each one, plus the District of Columbia, you can see exactly how many people have signed up for a private insurance plan through one of the new marketplaces.
Analysts at the Kaiser Family Foundation have since taken those numbers, state by state, and compared them to the number of people eligible to get private insurance through the marketplaces. The result, in each case, is a percentage—the proportion of eligible residents who have signed up for private Obamacare plans. The analysts at Kaiser, a carefully non-partisan foundation, didn't take into account state political environments. The graph below, which I constructed, does.
Of the ten states that have the higher percentages, eight are solidly “blue,” in the sense that they voted for the Democratic president in the last three presidential elections....
(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...
And a major reason Washington State is so high is because our website did and does (for the most part) work.
I’m familiar with the history, just not down with the color stasis.
We've already got Romneycare.
Cohn should stick to journalism.
Statistics is obviously not his bag. His analysis is riddled with selection bias. So-called blue states have more liberal voters who want more government intervention so that they can get insurance. They also elect more dims to state office who will line up in lock step behind the president. More of these liberal voters will sign up for Obamacare because there are more of them in these states.
It’s reverse for the so-called red states.
There’s not even a non-conspiracy conspiracy here.
Duh!
It was pointed out how this could be done three years ago when the text of the bill was analyzed at findlaw. And that is just one of many different ways the fangs have been pulled.
If you live in one of these states, you should be explaining this to people around you. Particularly young healthy people.
Democrats should have read their own bill so they would have known what was in it. Fortunately an army of lawyers stepped up to read it. The main thing to keep crippling it now is for state attorney generals to continue to not allow Obama to try to rewrite the law through executive orders.
For instance, two adjacent liberal states, Oregon and Washington. Oregon is at the bottom of the list and Washington is at the top. The only difference is that Oregon's website is a complete and massive failure. Washington isn't really much of a success, either. 50% of their sign ups are for Medicaid.
Whatever it is I'm against it. No matter who proposed or who commenced it. I'm against it!
If I had any money to invest I’d buy stock in the big insurance companies. The taxpayers are about to write them some big checks.
I see the same old mantra. The left failed again miserably, and this time they are killing people. So like they always do, they try to blame the right.
Not working d@baggers....
Yep. Is it the state, or the people in it? In my case it’s me. In my opinion, the government health care site is the $2 whore of web sites. I wouldn’t visit it without protection and a shot afterward.
We became health insurance free on January first and we are in a red state (KY).
Notice KY is the highest red state? It’s because there are a LOT of people here living off the system. They are mostly medicaid signups.
All that chart tells me is that we are hopelessly outnumbered and the Republic is doomed.
I’m sure immigration reform will fix that, though. ;-)
Hmmm... so, states do have rights
Not in 2014, but they have a pretty good shot in 2016 if the "historic" Hillary campaign turns out all of her previously disinterested female voters...the ones who won't think Jeb Bush is as handsome and charming as Barack was in the Spring of 2008. :)
Most of the Obastardcare applicants are for Medicaid or heavily subsidized premiums. TNR reports most of the grabs for the Gibsmedat are in “Blue States” and this is seen as news?
Sometimes saying “Pass the milk” means pass the milk. No hidden agendas.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. Partisan Media Shill ping.
We are still a badly divided country.
Um............NO. Keep a close eye on Chelsea, look for her to give Hillary grandchildren.
I think Hillary is so drunk with power, that she may run even if she has grand children. If it is not her, it will be some other communist and with so many rats voting early and voting often, the communist wins, unfortunately.
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