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Higher Percentage Uninsured Under Obamacare Than in 2008, Says Gallup
March 10, 2014 By Matthew Burke

A new Gallup poll states that a higher percentage of Americans are uninsured now, under Obamacare, than were uninsured in 2008, which is before the bill even became law.

As reported by CNS News, the AP is reporting that “Americans without health insurance is dropping to the lowest levels since Barack Obama took office. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that 15.9 percent are still not insured so far in 2014, which is a downward fluctuation from the 17.1 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...red-rate-drops

However, as CNS News points out, the new 15.9% uninsured number is still higher than it was in 2008, when 14.8 percent were found by the same Gallup poll to be uninsured.

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/03/10/highe...8-says-gallup/

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Once you realize that Obamacare has nothing to do with health insurance and everything to do with wealth redistribution and the destruction of the American economy, it all makes sense.


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Obama is achieving exactly what he said he was going to do: complete transformation of America.

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It was never about Health Care, it was never about helping those who had less, it was never about any of that. It was always about CONTROL over peoples lives. It was about changing the actions of all Americans and the transforming of our Nation into a Socialist Country. Why else would Obama appoint Socialist and Communist personnel to cabinet postings? Why else would he kowtow to other Nations, bow to leaders of lesser Countries. Why else would he gut the Military and remove hawkish Generals and appoint pro-Gay ones who care more about drag queen parties then Military readiness? Why else would he approve the hiring of Muslim Chaplains for the Military but at the same time attack and hinder Christian Chaplains and even threaten servicemen who speak about GOD? Time for Obama to resign or be Impeached, but until we retake the House and the Senate that will never happen. The time is now to reclaim our Nation or accept becoming a Third world one


Health law cited as US uninsured rate drops
March 10, 2014 - 5:34 PM By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The share of Americans without health insurance is dropping to the lowest levels since President Barack Obama took office, but sign-ups under his health care law lag among Hispanics — a big pool of potential beneficiaries. With just three weeks left to enroll on the new insurance exchanges, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, finds that 15.9 percent of U.S. adults are uninsured thus far in 2014, down from 17.1 percent for the last three months — or calendar quarter— of 2013. Released Monday, the survey based on more than 28,000 interviews is a major independent effort to track the health care rollout. The drop of 1.2 percentage points in the uninsured rate translates to about 3 million people gaining coverage. Gallup said the proportion of Americans who are uninsured is on track to drop to the lowest quarterly level it measured since 2008, before Obama took office. "It's probably a reasonable hypothesis that the Affordable Care Act is having something to do with this drop," said Frank Newport, Gallup's editor-in-chief. "We saw a continuation of the trend we saw last month; it didn't bounce back up." The survey found that almost every major demographic group made progress getting health insurance, although Hispanics lagged. With the highest uninsured rate of any racial or ethnic group, Latinos were expected to be major beneficiaries of the new health care law. They are a relatively young population and many are on the lower rungs of the middle class, in jobs that don't come with health insurance. They've also gone big for Obama in his two presidential campaigns. But the administration's outreach effort to Hispanics stumbled from the start. The Spanish-language enrollment website, CuidadodeSalud.gov, was delayed due to technical problems. Its name sounds like a clunky translation from English: "Care of Health." The feds also translated "Affordable Care Act" as "Law for Care of Health at Low Price" — which doesn't sound too appealing. A spot check of the Spanish site on Monday showed parts of it still use a mix of Spanish and English to convey information on such basics as insurance copays, risking confusion. With disappointing Latino sign-ups, the administration is making a special pitch as the end of open enrollment season approaches March 31. The president was on Spanish-language television networks last week to raise awareness. Obama assured viewers that signing up for health care won't trigger the deportation of any relatives who are in the country illegally. The law's benefits are only for citizens and legal US residents. Gallup found the biggest drop in the uninsured rate was among households making less than $36,000 a year — a decline of 2.8 percentage points. Among blacks, the uninsured rate was down by 2.6 percentage points. It declined by 1 percentage point among whites. But Latinos saw a drop of just eight-tenths of a percentage point. The Gallup poll is considered authoritative because it combines the scope and depth found in government surveys with the timeliness of media sampling. Pollsters interview 500 people a day, 350 days a year. The latest health care results were based on more than 28,000 interviews, or about 28 times as many as in a standard national poll. The survey can be an early indicator. Gallup saw a modest decline in the uninsured rate in January, and now two full months of data point to a trend emerging. "This is another indication that the (law) is achieving its key objectives," said Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the Medicare agency, which is also steering the rollout. Gallup said the drop coincides with the start of coverage under the health care law on Jan. 1. The major elements are now in effect. Virtually all Americans are required to get covered or risk fines. Insurers can no longer turn away people with health problems. New state-based markets are offering taxpayer-subsidized private insurance to middle-class households. Medicaid rolls are also growing, with about half the states agreeing to the program expansion in the law. Low-income people who qualify for Medicaid are able to sign up year-round, so the uninsured rate may keep going down even after the end of open enrollment for private coverage. The administration is citing numbers that are far higher than Gallup's: about 4 million people signing up for private coverage, and 9 million for Medicaid. But those statistics also include people who already had health insurance and switched to coverage offered under the law. They also include children, while Gallup focuses on adults. The survey was based on telephone interviews from Jan. 2-Feb. 28 with a random sample of 28,396 adults aged 18 and older in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total national sample, the margin of error is plus or minus 1 percentage point, larger for subgroups. ___

Online: http://www.gallup.com/poll/167798/un...nues-fall.aspx



http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/....h8t3m7G6.dpuf

Originally Posted by boopster

I have a question: i thought you had to be a citizen to purchase health insurance and/or sign up for medicaid? If that is the case, my understanding is that US citizens have to be able to speak and read English so why is there a website in Spanish?

Dem Response : You're RACIST !!!

Eat your own words on Obamacare, Debbie Wasserman Schultz
By Michelle Malkin | MARCH 7, 2014 AT 10:16 AM

At the end of 2013, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had some nasty words for yours truly. Irked that I used my Twitter feed to criticize her Obamacare propaganda efforts, Wasserman Schultz snarked back at me:

"Thanks for spreading the word! You'll be eating them next year. #GetCovered."

Classy as always. And completely wrong-headed as usual. Less than three months into 2014, how's dutiful Debbie and her Dear Leader's pet government takeover program doing? The most recent retreat measures -- call it the Obamacare Endangered 2014 Midterm Democrats' Rescue Plan -- include:

-- Allowing insurers for two extra years to continue selling plans that otherwise would have been banned by Obamacare. Last fall, Americans across the country and from all parts of the political spectrum raised an uproar in the wake of millions of Obamacare-induced cancellation notices on their individual market health plans. President Obama trotted out a "keep your plan" Band-Aid effective through this year. Now, the "transitional period" will extend through October 2016 and cover policyholders until the following September, after Obama is safely out of office.

— Extending the open enrollment period for 2015 from November 2014 to February 2015, a month longer than originally scheduled. (It will no doubt be extended again as the midterm elections get closer.)

— Relaxing eligibility requirements for insurers to qualify for financial help under a three-year program intended to cushion insurers' costs of complying with Obamacare mandates.

— Exempting labor unions, universities and other self-insured employers from paying a fee that creates the above-noted fund.

In addition, the White House last month allowed medium-sized employers an extra year to comply with the Obamacare mandate to offer insurance to all full-time workers and reduced the percentage of workers that large companies are required to cover. These latest regulatory walk-backs by administrative fiat all come on the heels of dozens of administrative delays and rollbacks.

While Democrats complain about Republican Obamacare repeal efforts, we may be nearing a special inflection point at which the White House will have reneged on more Obamacare regulations than it's actually enforcing!

Remember: In November 2010, the White House began issuing thousands of waivers to unions, cronies, businesses and organizations that offered affordable health insurance or prescription drug coverage with limited benefits outlawed by Obamacare. The federalized health care architects had sought to eliminate those low-cost plans under the guise of controlling insurer spending on executive salaries and marketing. Despite the waivers, the mandate has led to untold disruptions in the marketplace and has prompted businesses to cancel the beneficial plans altogether and/or slash wages and work hours.

In April 2011, Obama signed a bipartisan-backed law repealing his own onerous $22 billion Obamacare 1099 tax-compliance mandate that would have destroyed small businesses inundated with pointless paperwork.

Last March, with the support of several key Democrats, the Senate voted to repeal the Obamacare medical device tax. But the vote has not been enforced. Device makers have cut back on research and development. And according to the medical device manufacturers industry group AdvaMed, the punitive tax has forced companies to lay off or avoid hiring at least 33,000 workers over the past year.

In December and January, when Wasserman Schultz was busy acting like a 2-year-old in response to Obamacare critics, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was busy:

— Delaying premium payment deadlines.

— Delaying high-risk insurance pool cancellations.

— Delaying equal coverage mandates that force companies to drop health benefits rewards for top executives.

— Delaying onerous "meaningful use" mandates on health providers grappling with Obamacare's disastrous top-down electronic medical records rules.

While Wasserman Schultz defiantly claims all Democrats will proudly run on health care in 2014 and 2016, endangered Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina was caught on camera just last week literally running away from a journalist who dared to ask her about the 24 times she falsely promised that if you liked your plan, you could keep it under Obama.

It's not just Hagan; every vulnerable Senate Democrat who rammed Obamacare down America's throat is now running for the hills. When the White House now talks about the "Get Covered" campaign, it's not about ordinary Americans getting health care. It's about covering the backsides of the Obama water-carriers who may very well lose their jobs. They're not just eating their words. They're choking on Obamacare's massive, inevitable, job-killing, life-threatening failures.

I'd like to tell bratty Wasserman Schultz that Obamacare critics will have the last laugh. But we're too busy weeping at the senseless government-induced wreckage around us.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/eat-yo...rticle/2545263