Obama May Want To Put Cork Back In Champagne Bottle After He Sees These ObamaCare Numbers

IJReview ^ | April 2, 2014 | Mike Miller

[NYer]

Now that Obama has taken a victory lap and popped the champagne cork over hitting the ObamaCare enrollment goal, it looks as if it might be time to put the cork back in the bottle.

Results of a RAND Corporation study suggest that barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans – nowhere near 7.1 million, as claimed by Obama – had paid for new policies and joined the ranks of the insured by the Monday night deadline. The study also indicates that only one-third of exchange sign-ups were previously uninsured.

Yes, millions of enrollees were previously insured, including those who lost coverage when their existing policies were cancelled because they didn’t meet ObamaCare’s minimum requirements.

Still, Obama claimed that “millions of people who have health insurance would not have it”‘ without ObamaCare. The numbers simply do not support that claim.

Moreover, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take a shot at Republicans “who have based their entire political agenda on repealing it.” Obama also thanked Democrats, who passed the “Affordable” Care Act without a single Republican vote.

“‘We could not have done it without them, and they should be proud of what they’ve done.”

Yeah, they’re proud as punch, Mr. President. We’ll see how proud they are as they run away from ObamaCare as fast as they can during this year’s campaign season.

By the way, in addition to subtracting the number of those who have applied for ObamaCare but not paid for it from the 7.1 million number the White House touts, there are Medicaid adjustments to be made to Obama’s fuzzy math as well.

• The White House counts Medicaid enrollees in its numbers. Through December, between 1 and 2 million ObamaCare enrollees actually signed up for Medicaid vs. health insurance.
• Moreover, when states report Medicaid enrollment data to the federal government, they don’t break down the number between the “gained Medicaid because of Obamacare” population and the “would have gotten Medicaid anyway” group.

So, while the White House will most certainly continue to pat itself on the back for a “job well done,” the only “job” is the snow job being perpetrated on the American public.

[hal ogen]

Goodness...what malignant fools! Does anyone believe anything that these duplicitous fools spew?

[McGruff]

Paging Joe Wilson.

[rwoodward]

The DEBATE is OVER! Al Gore’s hockeystick got nothin on Barry. Barry is the true statistician. He can just say any number and it magically shows up on TV. Simply Amazing!

[Zuse]

“Does anyone believe anything that these duplicitous fools spew?”

About 50% believe it, and that’s all it takes.
Just look at how easily these dismal numbers were spun into a victory celebration for B0 Soebarkah.
They will be relentlessly spinning before the election.

[hal ogen]

Factor-out the voter fraud and I’d bet is is more like 30% (see NC recent developments).

[Baynative]

I was told (on another thread) that even though the lowest payers who have incomes below the poverty level still get policies with deductibles over $2,500 they don’t have to pay anything for abortions, birth control, colonoscopies and more. Does anyone know how this works?

[NYer]

Don’t get Rush down here unless I’m up at 3am and that’s only on a party night LOL!

You're online ... so is Rush! You can read the transcripts at his web site or follow his podcasts.

[ronnie raygun]

858,000? so your saying he lied!.........again

[Kid Shelleen]

Does anybody have a rough idea how much government spent signing up all those people? It would be interesting to find out the cost per “new” subscriber.

[SkyDancer]

I do at times.

[NYer]

I was told (on another thread) that even though the lowest payers who have incomes below the poverty level still get policies with deductibles over $2,500 they don’t have to pay anything for abortions, birth control, colonoscopies and more. Does anyone know how this works?

According to Nancy Pelosi, "we won't know until the law is passed". The only person who has read the bill , is is Betsy McCaughey. I would suggest you begin with her web site.

[stylin19a]

Obama also thanked Democrats, who passed the “Affordable” Care Act without a single Republican vote.?

Arlen Specter wasn't a real repulbican anyway.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NYer.

> Results of a RAND Corporation study suggest that barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans – nowhere near 7.1 million, as claimed by Obama – had paid for new policies and joined the ranks of the insured by the Monday night deadline. The study also indicates that only one-third of exchange sign-ups were previously uninsured.