Posted on 04/01/2014 6:29:01 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Special Report," Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer discussed the so-called 7.1 million Affordable Care Act enrollee number President Barack Obama announced earlier...
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I haven’t actually seen Krauthammer in a while — I must say he looks rather ill and struggling. I hope he’s doing OK.
The man has built his career on lies,why would any sane person believe anything he has to say now?
The 7.1 million is a real number. It’s just a meaningless real number unless you know how many of them are re-insuring after ObamaCare caused them to lose a cheaper but better plan that they liked, how many intended to buy ObamaCare but have not paid, how many put a policy in the cart to see the price but never intended to buy, how many are fictional and were shopping purely to see how bad ObamaCare is, how many are non-citizens signing up at one of the Mexican embassies that are helping to process applications (really!), how many have expensive medical conditions, and how many other Americans lost insurance and are unwilling or unable to sign up.
The most plausible number I have is less than one million genuine “successes” in which a previously uninsured US citizen signed up for ObamaCare and paid the premium, compared with more than five million (possibly far more) failures in which Americans lost their coverage due to this terrible law and did not re-insure.
As Mark Levin said today, Obama wrecked the greatest healthcare system in the world for 800,000 people.
2 million lost their current insurance and had no where else to go. Their rates are up 40% avg., deductibles tripled.
2 million are Medicaid.
2 million are subsidized and pay nothing.
1.1 million are young people duped by the ads who pay almost nothing.
There is your 7.1 million.
THat is suck a joke!! IT IS A LIE!!
Driving home this evening, I heard someone on the radio ask “Would you buy a used car from this guy (obumbler)?
What else do you need to know?
That is probably about where it will top out too.
If you believe 7.1 million, I have 3 bridgesto sell you. One in Brooklyn, one in Tampa Bay and one in Connecticut. You can have all 3 for the price of 7 million dollars. I accept gold or dollars only.
Obama’s a natural born liar. He does it with ease, probably better than any liar in all of politics.... And there’s a very strong field of competition.
‘Secretive Obamacare Study Reportedly Reveals ‘Enrollment’ Numbers the White House Doesn’t Want to Talk About’
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But numbers from the RAND Corporation study reportedly suggest just 23 percent of enrollees had no insurance previously. Further, the study reveals about just 53 percent of previously uninsured Americans have actually paid for their new plans.
“If those numbers hold, the actual net gain of paid policies among Americans who lacked medical insurance in the pre-Obamacare days would be just 858,298,” the Daily Mail reports.
You may have missed the point.
The 7.1 million number IS a LIE.
If it were real, they would have lied and told us 8 or 10 million.
Look at the pace at which the reported numbers grew in the final days, and then recall that the site crashed on the last day.
I f the numbers were real, they’d also be bragging about the demographics of the enrollees.
It’s all bogus.
Phony president
Phony party
Phony healthcare bill
Phony website
So phony numbers are to be expected
wait till these people who enrolled deal with long waits in the ER,have to wait 2/3 months for an urgent appt.,,will be asked to pay up front before they see the doctor,etc.etc.
As much as I disagree with RAND’s politics and the with questions they choose to ask, I find this number completely believable.
Levin ran this number down on his show tonight, in the first hour. The total of cancellations reported state-by-state prior to today runs about 6.2 million. The number of non-paying signups within that 7.1 million is easily 10%, 700K, and nobody disputes that. We could make various assumptions as to how many will fall off 0care when they go for some kind of treatment, assuming of course they can find a doctor who will take 0care as payment and then realize they have $6375. to go in med bills before 0care covers their $125 appointment before their deductible gets hit and puke up their coverage. It’s entirely possible that the net effect of the signup period in which people had to be begged and cajoled to sign up by celebrities and Rachel Ray & LeBron James (if it was such a great deal, one wonders why they had to be begged?) is utterly zero. Or even negative.
actually he looks and sounds a bit better than he has in the last couple of years
As Mark Levin said today, Obama wrecked the greatest healthcare system in the world for 800,000 people.
At what is projected to be around $40,000 apiece, in addition to the premium on policies.
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