Posted on 01/18/2017 12:25:02 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
The Obama administration claims 20 million more Americans today have health care due to Obamacare. The reality is that when you look at the actual net gains over the past two years since the program was fully implemented, the number is 14 million, and of that, 11.8 million (84 percent) were people given the “gift” of Medicaid.
And new research shows that even fewer people will be left without insurance after the repeal of Obamacare. Numbers are still being crunched, but between statistics released by the Congressional Budget Office and one of the infamous architects of Obamacare, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Jonathan Gruber, it’s estimated that anywhere from 2 to 7 million people now on Medicaid would have qualified for the program even without Obamacare. . .
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Why Obama is a fake. Volumes yet to be written.
Did anyone ever believe the 20 million umber was real?
And I think he put even more folks on food stamps!!
Hurrah for the Infamous ZERO!
Meanwhile, not a person in the country can name a single jobs program zero started...
I’ve never seen that figure even remotely proven. Figured they were talking about the cost over runs in the computer agency Michelle was responsible for.
I believe Obama as much as I believe the MSM.
The Individual Mandate and Employer Mandate are part of the “Shared Responsibility Provision,” one of the key provisions contained in the Affordable Care Act. The mandate to have insurance is sometimes referred to as the ObamaCare tax penalty, the Individual Mandate, or the Individual Shared Responsibility Fee.
But these paragraphs tell a story that seems counterintuitive -- but illustrate how "gifting" people with Medicaid does not necessarily benefit their health:
Multiple studies have also shown that even those who are uninsured often have better outcomes than those with Medicaid. A University of Virginia study found that for eight different surgical procedures, Medicaid patients were more likely to die than privately insured or uninsured patients. They were also more likely to suffer complications...
... Additionally, despite what proponents of the law promised, there is little evidence to show that the use of emergency rooms, which have a higher level of medical errors, has decreased due to Obamacare.
Dunno. I shut the door on Obama and Obamacare the day he was elected and paid little attention to either one.
Before Obamacare, everybody had health care. No one was denied care. It’s always been about insurance and the false precept that everyone is entitled to it.
Healthcare and insurance are two different things.
Bingo. With. 0bamacare you get a worthless piece of paper that says you are covered. Getting medical care is a whole different matter.
A first-year statistics student could see that since there was no control group any claims about the experimental group would be fatuous.
Everything about O'Bungler is fake !!
including his 'vetting' by Nazi Pelousey ! Even his 'jug ears' are radio receptors from ISIS radio dispatches.
O'Bunngler Crap includes double counting for Social Security and Social Security Disability by counting cars in the reserved lot at Wal-Mart.
His speeches are written on a teleprompter that even a cartoon character can read
He chose as 'Secretary of SNAKE', someone who was more criminal than he was, that is how he escaped with no scandal
I NEVER BELIEVED ANYTHING THAT PHONY SONOFABITCH SAID!
You’re right, and the “beneficiaries” are realizing that. It is hard for the left to get together any crowds (unless they are paid astro-turf) to defend this new tax called ObamaCare.
Why Obamacare’s ‘20 Million’ Number Is Fake
Well, usually the “How do you tell if Ebola’s lying? If his mouth is moving” rule is sufficient for me.
Obamas numbers are fake. He’s double counting: at least 8 million people already had health insurance, but got kicked off their insurance plan specifically because of Obamacare. So they had to turn around and sign up with another insurer which was allowed under Obamacare.
Don’t forget also: at the time Obama was braying about passing Obamacare, he and his Rat band of liars kept using the number “47 million uninsured.” Then they hemmed and hawed and whittled the number down to 40 million. In the 2016 presidential campaign, Cankles threw the number 20 million around a lot.
I can’t say this enough: (1) AT BEST 13 million who previously had no healthcare insurance got insurance through Obamacare. (2) There are 330 million plus citizens in the U.S. (3) So stupid @sshole Obama was willing to break the greatest healthcare system in the world in order to “help” 3.9% of the population—and screw the other 96%, the rest of us.
Obama and the Congressional Rats should all be in jail for what they did.
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