Tuesday, March 17, 2015

New report finds there has been a 35% decrease in the uninsured since the implementation of Obamacare. Conservatives claim that math is a liberal trick.

Told you everything would work out.
Courtesy of Vox: 

A new report from Health and Human Services finds that the uninsured rate has fallen from 20.3 percent prior to the health-care law down to 13.2 percent at the start of 2015. This is a 7.1 percentage-point decrease in the uninsured rate — or, to put it another way, a 35-percent decline in the number of Americans who lack insurance coverage. 

"Nothing since the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid has come close to this kind of change," says Richard Frank, assistant secretary for evaluation and planning at Health and Human Services. 

The decline in coverage has coincided with two big Obamacare programs. First, there was the part of the law that required employers to offer dependent coverage up through age 26. Since that program began in 2010, the uninsured rate among young adults (Americans between the ages of 19 and 26) has dropped from 34.1 percent to 26.7 percent. 

Second, and much larger, was the start of the health law's insurance expansion in 2014. Federal officials estimate that since the expansion started, 14.1 million Americans have gained coverage, largely through Medicaid and the health law's marketplace for private insurance.

I think this is probably why we have not heard the conservatives going after Obamacare recently. 

Now it's all about the President's "weakness" on and his insistence, according to the conservatives, on helping Iran get an atomic bomb.

"Netanyahu says the President is making a bad deal. Netanyahu says there will be no Palestinian state if he is reelected. Netanyahu said my hair looked nice and I swooned!"

However despite all of the attempts to undermine this President for virtually everything he tries to do, his approval ratings just keep going up: 

President Obama's approval rating just hit 50 percent for the first time since the spring of 2013. That's the biggest -- and most surprising -- takeaway from a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The gains are pretty even across the board, but the biggest are among Democrats (10 points), moderates (10), Hispanics (22), and even white evangelical Christians (10), who generally tilt heavily toward the GOP. Obama also has gained 19 points among adults younger than 30.

Gee not bad for a guy that just can't seem to do anything right. 

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:14 PM

    According to our bizzaro world counterparts, the 47 traitors in the GOP were just fooling around when they penned the Iran letter...it was never sent and it is the lyin' liburl media that was wrong!
    Carmtom13
    an hour ago
    "Senator Cotten posted the letter that he and other repubs signed on his FB or web site. The letter was never sent or mailed to Iran leaders. Just another lie that was told by the media that the letter was sent to Iran's leaders"

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    1. Anonymous1:14 PM

      Sure it wasn't, pee tricklers.

      In better news, Schock resigns!
      http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/17/politics/aaron-schock-resigns/index.html

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    2. Anonymous1:59 PM

      The guy actually spelled "Cotton" wrong.

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  2. Anonymous12:36 PM

    That damned math, just like science is a trick of satan. Gob darned knowledge is a sin of the devil himself, because it's a whole bunch easier to control the ignorant masses.

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  3. Anonymous2:03 PM

    >>I think this is probably why we have not heard the conservatives going after Obamacare recently.

    Yeah..no.

    First on Republicans' cutting list is repealing the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature health care law.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/republican-budget_n_6885244.html

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  4. Anonymous2:04 PM

    GOP-Controlled State Legislatures Passing Wave Of Bills Expanding Gun Rights

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/gun-rights-bills-_n_6886564.html

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  5. Anonymous2:05 PM

    President Obama Needed Less Than 60 Seconds To Amazingly Obliterate The Republican Budget

    http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/17/president-obama-needed-60-seconds-amazingly-obliterate-republican-budget.html

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  6. Anonymous8:13 PM

    Holy Drop Batman! %35 and only been in play less than two yrs?! Congrats President Obama!

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