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Posted on 09/16/2014 8:54:34 PM PDT by Lorianne
Federal researchers reported on Tuesday that the number of Americans without health insurance had declined substantially in the first quarter of this year, the first federal measure of the number of uninsured Americans since the Affordable Care Act extended coverage to millions of people in January.
The number of uninsured Americans fell by about 8 percent to 41 million people in the first quarter of this year, compared with 2013, a drop that represented about 3.8 million people and that roughly matched what experts were expecting based on polling by private groups, like Gallup. The survey also measured physical health but found little evidence of change.
The findings were part of the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative examination that is considered a gold standard by researchers. It interviewed about 27,000 people in the first quarter, fewer than Gallup, which interviewed 45,000 people in the second quarter alone. But researchers say it is considered particularly trustworthy because federal interviewers conduct the survey in Americans’ homes. It also sets a federal level that others can use as a benchmark.
Larry Levitt, a director at the Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health research organization, said the first-quarter findings “dramatically understate the effect” of the law, as almost half of the people who signed up for insurance during the open enrollment period did so in March and did not get their insurance cards until later. Private surveys have shown that there were eight million to 10 million fewer uninsured by the second quarter, he said.
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Hahahahahaha!
In a related story, I’ve still got a couple of those bridges in Brooklyn left for sale.
Obama’s admin has turned on the bull**** tap fast and thick.
In a related story, the number of parasites have substantially increased.
Even if we give them these numbers, a big if, we did all this garbage at all this expense for 3.8 million?
We could have bought them mansions and personal physicians and saved money without wrecking the system.
No body asked me. I’m also not included in the number of unemployed.
No you idiot....There may be more with “govt health insurance” but more sure don’t have HEALTHCARE”
Its free, you know?
In other words, Barry's boys.
That’s exactly right.
Yeah right, but does the article stress that it is because they are getting subsidies from the hard working tax payers?
It is straight forward transfer of wealth from the hard working to mostly the lazy.
Boy there sure has been a lot of lying’ liberals writing fiction lately
They consider you to be insured until they’ve stolen all your money.
That is glorious news, comrade! Do I detect skepticism?
That is facecrime. So it’s off with you to the re.ed camp.
BWAHAHAHHAHAHA
surprise surprise surprise
Since the first of September we have been getting at least two calls a day from people who are employed but they no longer have insurance because they can’t afford the premiums or their employer has changed to a new plan with a huge deductible which they will never meet this late in the year. They are requesting an appointment with one of my doctor clients and most of them are asking what the cost will be if they pay cash with no insurance filing by them or us. Been involved in this area since 1985 and this is the first time I’ve seen this set of circumstances.
Where’s the part about 30% who signed up having dropped out? That’s the rate that Aetna was running & the thinking is the rest of the insurance companies were also running 20-30%. Then there’s the several hundreds of thousands who either can’t verify their immigration status or income .... about to get kicked off.
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From: http://hotair.com/archives/2014/09/16/how-many-people-are-poised-to-lose-2014-obamacare-coverage/
So just how many are at risk? Almost half a million are in immediate risk of getting the boot from ObamaCare, with another 850,000 pending on immigration issues and potentially as many as 800,000 more on income level verification issues. Put all those together, and it comes to a 30% failure rate for ObamaCare’s first enrollment period, and potentially a massive waste of taxpayer money in subsidies. Most of these won’t be resolved until after we go through another enrollment period, again without the back-end systems that were supposed to keep this from happening at all.
Easy enough. Just change how you count the uninsured.
Can I quote you...
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