Posted on 03/14/2017 9:59:24 AM PDT by xzins
1. RED: Note that there are ALREADY 29 million who are not covered. They are going nuclear in the news today about 14 million uncovered, but the stats say 29 million are uncovered right now. EVER hear them talked about...except the 11 million illegals?
2. Green: Note that vast majority are covered by Employer: Green, 153 million
3. Brown & Brick: Next largest group is Medicare and traditional Medicaid: Brown & Brick, ~73 million
4. That means we are not arguing, for the most part, over our OWN health care.
5. Blue and Yellow: are the Obamacare covered, about 34 million people.
The odds are that you are NOT on Obamacare, and would probably NOT be on any plan put out by the GOP.
This would seem to indicate that the best health care program is finding a job.
If Trump adds the 25 million jobs he’s targeted, then he will also add 25 million health care coverages.
Problem is, there are 117 million working, covered y some private or employer-paid plan - ALL mandated by Obamacare.
And there are more than 193 million on government-paid “plans” - ALL mandated by added rules forced by Obamacare.
And “only” 29 million illegals and not-covered. (More likely this is too few illegals.)
“The odds are that you are NOT on Obamacare, and would probably NOT be on any plan put out by the GOP.”
A good reason for straight repeal now. A small minority of people are affected and they can be handled through charity and Medicaid or deported if they are in the country illegally.
The truth is most who are affected will never vote conservative. Repeal the law, end regulation, pass tort reform, and allow interstate competition. The press and the Democrats will scream for a month. Two years from now it will be forgotten. If only the GOP members of Congress had some backbone.
Employers were covering before Obamacare.
Plus, the employer mandates were postponed until this year, iirc.
Good information. PFL.
Hint, go back to the 1980s and look at how many people were fully employed out of the whole population. Go talk to folks who were in their 30’s at the time. Ask them about health-care policies...they all had some deal. It might have been a two-star program, or just marginally acceptable....but it was better than nothing.
When those jobs in the 1990s went out to Mexico and China...and people were left with no job/health policy...that was the new reality of America.
If Trump can create two million jobs....more than half will have some kind of insurance attached. We need to bring back the open market, encourage cheaper health alternates, and just get the government out of the middle of this mess.
Number 7.....You have to be 65 to be in Medicare. This #7 is who then??
Those 29 million are the illegal aliens.
That’s what Ryancare is trying to fix about Obamacare.
Don’t think so...but there was a change in the number of employees
Employer furnished, Medicare, and medicade should be all the government supports. Cut off the rest.
They are a separate category under Medicare for those who’ve paid in but had to go on Medicare only with certain disabilities or any end-stage renal disease(esrd) (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant.
I wouldn’t normally know the above, but I just got my “Welcome to Medicare” booklet.
Insured/uninsured Pie Chart
White House delays health insurance mandate for medium ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/white-house...
Businesses with 50 to 99 employees have until 2016 before they must offer health insurance to full-time workers.
Such a nice colorful pie chart for Pi day!
Good catch...hadn’t even thought of it. Lol
Bingo! Unless they are low-paying no-benefits jobs like most under Obama were, which will not be the case.
My former employer dropped its retiree healthcare as soon as Obamacare became law, saying now everyone could get cheaper coverage on the exchanges. That wasn’t true, but they cut the benefit for not only present but for future retirees as well. So if my former colleagues leave the company before 65 they will need to buy insurance if they do not get another job. This is one reason the trend will be for fewer people being covered by employer-provided insurance, and people who will be in the higher-risk age categories.
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