About That “ObamaCare Success” the Media’s Touting . . . .
The current Administration has announced that over 7.1 million individuals have “signed up” for ObamaCare under those famous (or, if you prefer, infamous) “healthcare exchanges” it claimed would provide insurance to the uninsured.
Sounds like they were a rousing success, right? Well, not really. That number appears to be yet another example of the Administration’s “selective interpretation of reality”. (Yeah I know – you’re shocked, shocked that this Administration would ever do that.)
First off: published accounts indicated that most persons signing up for ObamaCare already had health insurance. Best estimates put this fraction at between 2/3 and 3/4 of ObamaCare signups.
Second: it looks like about 3/4 of signups will have higher premiums under ObamaCare than they did before. So much for “affordable”.
Third: there’s a big difference between “signed up” and “insured”. Until the person signing up pays their first premium, they do not have insurance. Period.
Best available data indicates that that only 80-85% of signups have actually made that first ObamaCare premium payment. That’s what Blue Cross/Blue Shield is reporting. And it tracks with anecdotal reports from other insurers.
Apply that fraction, and it means that instead of 7.1 million insured, you actually have between 5.7 and 6.0 million insured. And since 3/4 of those were previously insured, well, that translates into roughly 1.4 and 1.5 million people newly insured.
Yeah, really what I’d call a “success”. To paraphrase Pyrrhus: “Another such ‘success’ and we shall be ruined.”
We need to cut our losses and walk away from this abysmal failure. It’s nothing but a bottomless money pit that can’t deliver.
Category: Health Care debate
What we have is a mountain an evidence that the Emperor and his court have lied to their subjects, that they have ignored the best interests of their subjects, and that they have no intention of doing otherwise. Health insurance, jobs, Veterans issues, foreign policy, energy, non enforcement of federal laws, declarations of unconstitutionality, involvement in state and local matters, race relations, immigration and, of course the debt–all off the top of my head and all matters in which he and his have acted contrary to the best interest of the country. What a sickening way to start a day and end a week–with that POS SOB as president.
Another funny thing is all those clowns who claim that Obamacare was just Romneycare beefed up to the Federal level… Tell that to all the people of mass who are now seeing their cost increase even more, cannot get coverage through the Health Connector, and are unable to use the same Doctors that they have been for years because they are not accepting any of the Obamacare plans now being forced upon them.
“Romneycare” was not the greatest plan in the world, but it was not the abysmal failure that Obamacare is. Obamacare has taken over, replacing what was a working system with a system yet to even come close to working.
Another funny thing, wasn’t Obama blaming evil Republican Governors for the failures of the State Exchanges? Last time I checked his good pal Deval Patrick is still our Governor and our State House is largely controlled by the Democrats.
Democrats up for reelection kept their distance from the Ocare “victory” parade. As the southern poets Lynyrd Skynyrd put it…something about “That Smell”.
Some of the dem senators tried to do an Obamacare victory lap the other day, but cut it short when a reporter committed a random act of journalism. He asked the Senator speaking why there were no dem Senators who were up for reelection present at the victory lap.
Thank God the people who already had insurance signed up to pay higher premiums…that way the 1.5 million newly insured can pay less…
As the democrats no longer have any super majority we don’t have to worry about what they will “fix” next for a little while, but it would be pertinent to keep their side to a minority in the mid terms as well….
You know, last I checked the populace of the US was 330 million people. (Not counting the illegals that the liberals pander to for their votes)
The President screaming even “7 million” have insurance is one of those “WTF?” kind of moments. What about the other 327 million people? Regardless of if they are insured or not, a “victory” would be only 7 million don’t have insurance. Gimme a break.
But then this is the same hypocrite that says things totally contrary to what he was saying as a Senator because now he’s in power and that’s what matters.
All 536 need to be fired. Plain and Simple.
323 million, sorry, my math isn’t working right this morning….
The 7 million people is about as many as lost their healthcare insurance after this clusterphuck took effect.
“Another such ‘success’ and we shall be ruined.”
Thank you Mr. Big Eared, Retarded President! Thank you for helping the American people so very much!
Now if you will please Sir…don’t help us anymore, please. We can’t afford it and we can’t stand all the love oozing out of your Administration anymore. I’m overwhelmed by it already! Just a couple more years to not help us anymore is all I ask. Please for the love of the Lord, DON’T HELP ME ANYMORE!