kudzu (01-24-2019)
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kudzu (01-24-2019)
For three years running, the uninsured rate has remained unchanged, government data show. That means, despite massive taxpayer costs, ObamaCare is tapped out.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the overall uninsured rate last year was 9.1%, the same as it was in 2015.
If you take out retirees, who are automatically covered by Medicare, the uninsured rate was 10.7% last year, up a fraction from 10.5% in 2015.
The uninsured rate for the near poor hasn't budged in three years. And it's climbed for those characterized by the CDC as "not poor." It went from 6.6% in 2015 to 7.2% in 2017.
the CDC data also show that, despite all the hoopla over how ObamaCare would "fix" the private insurance market, all the gains in coverage under ObamaCare came from getting more people on Medicaid.
In other words, it was ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion that did all the work of reducing the uninsured rate, not the guaranteed issue rules, benefit mandates, the multibillion dollar ObamaCare exchanges, the failed co-op experiments, the insurance bailouts, or the tens of billions of dollars each year premium subsidies.
Here are the numbers:
- CDC data show that the uninsured rate among those under age 65 declined from 16.4% in 2007 to 12.4% in 2017.
- However, over those same years the share covered by private insurance dropped from 66.8% to 65.4%.
- The share with government insurance, meanwhile, shot up from 18.1% to 25.3%.
One very large study found that the health of those on Medicaid wasn't significantly better than those who lacked insurance altogether. Medicaid is in desperate need of reform, and ObamaCare opened the door to this disastrous program to millions more people.
At the same time, ObamaCare failed to "reform" the private insurance market. If anything, it exacerbated the problems. ObamaCare's mandates and regulations forced premiums in the individual insurance market through the roof, pricing many middle-class families out of the insurance market altogether.
ObamaCare's failures are plain for all to see.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/medicare-for-all-democrats-midterm-elections/
Obamacare wasn't perfect, but that doesn't mean it failed. Americans were better off with it than they were before, when far less people had health insurance.
And no, people on Medicaid weren't just as healthy as people without insurance.
Now I do agree that we have a long way to go to have a good health care system in America, but Obamacare was a step in the right direction.
kudzu (01-14-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Great article if you want to be more informed. My guess is you will ignore it because you like being a low information dumb fuck.
Top 10 Most Socialist Countries in the World
The term socialist has been thrown around quite a bit in the past few years. Not since the cold war has the term garnered so much attention in the press and from politicians. But when you look at countries who actually have a socialist economic structure, you can see some similarities to the United States – but there are some really stark differences.
Below, you will see some of the most socialistic nations in the world today:
China
Denmark
Finland
Netherlands
Canada
Sweden
Norway
Ireland
New Zealand
Belgium
http://blog.peerform.com/top-ten-mos...-in-the-world/
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
How has Obamacare succeeded? The only thing it succeeded in doing was increasing our costs and lowering service levels.
Morons on the left are constantly complainant about the healthcare in this country and even calling for a more severe change with Medicare for all. If Obamacare worked so well, why are liberals claiming they need to FIX it?
You morons can't even keep track of your own lies, much less what happened yesterday.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
kudzu (02-19-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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