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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
From your link, am I missing something?
The Rand Corporation reported that by March 2014: "Enrollment in employer-sponsored insurance plans increased by 8.2 million and Medicaid enrollment increased by 5.9 million, although some individuals did lose coverage during this period. The authors also found that 3.9 million people are now covered through the state and federal marketplaces — the so called insurance exchanges — and less than 1 million people who previously had individual-market insurance became uninsured during the period in question. While the survey cannot tell if this latter group lost their insurance due to cancellation or because they simply felt the cost was too high, the overall number is very small, representing less than 1 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 64."
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No, you didn't miss anything. The uninsured rate was all the way up to 18%+ by 2013. That's millions more than are uninsured now...the 2014 number is 15.6% uninsured. So "adding" the ones you are quoting brought it "down" to 15.6%. That is good news...except it's still higher than it was BEFORE ObamaCare.
All those "new" people insured were not uninsured before either.
"Adding" all those people still hasn't made up for the millions who lost insurance between 2009 and 2012.
Think of it like this: If 100 people lose something. And then a couple of years later 50 of them regain it...you can SAY that "Look 50 people got it!"
Reality is that "yes" they did. But it's STILL less than what was the original number.
I don't know why I'm having to explain this. The NUMBERS are right there on that page.
Everything else is moot. There are more people without insurance today than there were in 2008 before ObamaCare.
You can spin other numbers all day long. But the reality is...there are LESS people with health insurance now than before ObamaCare.
This was supposed to insure EVERYBODY and also save the average American family $2,500 a year in lower prices. That was the whole argument made for it in the beginning...remember?
WTF is wrong with people that they can't simply see the percentage of Americans uninsured in 2008 and the HIGHER number now? It's pretty simple...it's not "crockett science" lol