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Don't Credit ObamaCare Exchanges For Uninsured Drop
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 09/16/2014 | John Merline

Posted on 09/17/2014 5:06:59 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

The uninsured rate fell 1.3% in the first three months of this year to the lowest point since the Centers for Disease Control began tracking it in 1997.

The CDC's survey, on top of others by Gallup, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute, appears to show that ObamaCare is succeeding in its main goal of cutting the ranks of the uninsured.

But the picture is far murkier than these surveys suggest. In fact, it's not entirely clear what impact ObamaCare is having on the uninsured, or what part of the law deserves credit if it is.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: healthcare; obama; obamacare; uninsured

1 posted on 09/17/2014 5:06:59 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer

just in tome for the election

the propaganda machine is up and running full steam now that Summer’s over


2 posted on 09/17/2014 5:11:11 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Are they counting the 80 million people not working or illegals crowding the emergency rooms?


3 posted on 09/17/2014 5:13:42 AM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: bert

“the propaganda machine is up and running full steam now that Summer’s over”

Are you referring to the IBD as a propaganda machine?


4 posted on 09/17/2014 5:26:02 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Apparently you have an opinion, that I would be interested in, but unexpressed.


5 posted on 09/17/2014 5:48:20 AM PDT by wita
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To: IBD editorial writer

Likely they are going into expanded Medicaid programs as one by one GOPe Governors cave.


6 posted on 09/17/2014 5:52:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Jim Robinson; Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


7 posted on 09/17/2014 6:12:44 AM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: TexasGator

No, IBD received and passed along the propaganda


8 posted on 09/17/2014 6:17:38 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: poobear

Since our rates have doubled since Obama took office, I guess we have a couple added to our premium we don’t know about! /s


9 posted on 09/17/2014 6:44:06 AM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: IBD editorial writer

After all the money spent, is a 1.3% drop worth bragging about? Wasn’t it supposed to cover all the uninsured?


10 posted on 09/17/2014 7:01:14 AM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: wita

“Apparently you have an opinion, that I would be interested in, but unexpressed.”

No. .


11 posted on 09/17/2014 7:20:07 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: IBD editorial writer

The media will spin this to a positive before the election.


12 posted on 09/17/2014 12:12:10 PM PDT by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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