Posted on 03/16/2014 4:24:19 PM PDT by jazusamo
The number bounced around for years — 46 million.
President Obama said it in August 2009: “I don’t have to explain to you that nearly 46 million Americans don’t have health insurance coverage today. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, 46 million of our fellow citizens have no coverage.”
He said it dozens more times, including in June 2013: “We are not a nation that accepts nearly 46 million uninsured men, women and children.”
The Obama administration pumped the number with official reports. The White House Council of Economic Advisers said, “Perhaps the most visible sign of the need for health care reform is the 46 million Americans currently without health insurance.” The Census Bureau got in on the act, too, saying some 48 million Americans lacked health insurance.
It was official: Nearly 15 percent of America’s 313 million citizens had no coverage and were, as Mr. Obama loved to say over and over to hype the fear, “one illness away from financial ruin.”
So, he created Obamacare. The crux of the biscuit: The United States would completely change its entire health care system to make sure those 46 million got insured. Well, at least that’s what every rational American thought. If there are 46 million uninsured, and the president and Congress are overhauling the system, it must be to solve the whole problem — not just part of it.
But last week came word that with just 15 days left for people to enroll for federal coverage, just 4.2 million had. The math is simple: That’s just 9 percent of the supposedly 46 million uninsured.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
26 years old ... I was on my own, working and paying off my college loans at that age. I had a job that offered health insurance.
Why won’t we let kids grow up?
Oh, I get it. The Rats are already saying that people don’t want Obamacare repealed, they want it “fixed”. And guess who has the solution?
vaudine
To try to cover those 46 million we needed to destroy the rest of the health care system.
(Liberal Logic)
“All Obamacare has done is to place insurance further outside the reach of even more people. What good is health insurance if you can’t afford it?”
Exactly and the policies are crap.
RE: “Why won’t we let kids grow up?”
Too dangerous.
They might become Conservatives.
Think of the heartache!
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