tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post856081493431328104..comments2024-03-15T20:40:42.249-07:00Comments on The State of the Union: Horror Stories of Obamacare: Dr. Bellar's One SentenceArthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-27798657862623417782014-03-19T11:07:51.352-07:002014-03-19T11:07:51.352-07:00The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is out and ...The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is out and reveals that 15.9 percent of American adults are now uninsured, down from 17.1 percent for the last three months of 2013 and has shown improvements in every major demographic group with the exception of Hispanics who did not advance.<br /><br />That translates roughly to 3 million to 4 million people getting coverage who did not have it before.<br /><br />According to Gallup, the number of Americans who still do not have health insurance coverage is on track to reach the lowest quarterly number since 2008.<br /><br />This is one statistic that is going to be tough for Obamacare critics to overcome.Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-31105758451922900732014-03-19T11:05:51.457-07:002014-03-19T11:05:51.457-07:00Want more?
For months now, we have been pounded w...Want more?<br /><br />For months now, we have been pounded with the story of the millions of Americans who have lost their non-group, individual health insurance policy due to cancellations forced by Obamacare.<br /><br /><br />Yet, a new study just out by Lisa Clemans-Cope and Nathaniel Anderson of the Urban Institute tells a very different story.<br /><br />How many times have readers, along with television and radio audiences, read or heard me point out that few ever expected to hang onto their individual insurance policy for longer than a year or two following date of purchase? Long before there was Obamacare, it was always clear that when someone purchased an individual health instance policy, it was pretty much a given that they would either be moving on to an employer provided group plan when they get a job or that their policy would respond to the ordinary, pre-Obamacare changes that occurred from year to year and result in the consumer having to purchasing a new plan after a short period of time.<br /><br />Indeed, it was this very reality that made it clear to those who follow the health insurance industry that Obama’s “If you like your policy you can keep your policy” proclamation was a near impossibility for those participating in the individual marketplace. This simply wasn’t the way the individual market worked.<br /><br />The Urban Institute study bears this out, noting that “the non-group market has historically been highly volatile, with just 17 percent retaining coverage for more than two years.”<br /><br />While Obamacare foes have been quick to jump on this statistic when it comes to condemning the President for uttering his promise that you could keep your insurance if you are happy with your policy, the same people have somehow managed to miss the reality that a huge percentage of those who received cancellation notices last year were going to get that notice even if the Affordable Care Act had never existed.<br /><br />Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-4280869008612698642014-03-19T11:03:43.348-07:002014-03-19T11:03:43.348-07:00So many lies about the ACA...
Let’s begin with th...So many lies about the ACA...<br /><br />Let’s begin with the meme threatening that healthcare reform will lead to a serious decline in full-time employment as employers reduce workforce hours to below 30 per week in the effort to avoid their responsibility to provide health benefits to their employees.<br /><br />It turns out that there has, in fact, been no such rush to reduce work hours. Indeed, numbers released last week reveal that precisely the opposite is taking place.<br /><br />According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the number of part-time workers in the United States has fallen by 300,000 since March of 2010 when the Affordable Care Act was passed into law. What’s more, in the past year alone—the time period in which the nation was approaching the start date for Obamacare—full-time employment grew by over 2 million while part-time employment declined by 230,000.<br /><br />And it gets even more interesting.<br /><br />Despite the cries of anguish over the coming destruction of private sector work opportunities at the hands of Obamacare, it turns out that the only significant ‘cutter’ of work hours turns out to be in the public sector where cops, teachers, prison guards and the like are experiencing cuts in work time as cities, states and universities seek to avoid the obligations of the health reform law.<br /><br />Correct me if I am wrong, but is it not the very same folks who strenuously oppose Obamacare who are constantly screaming for smaller government? Are these not the same people who have, for as many years as I can recall, been carping about swollen government payrolls?<br /><br />But the false narrative that has been peddled to make us believe that the private sector can’t wait to lower our hours of employment turns out not to be the only false note being played by anti-Obamacare forces.Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-66103737229958387162014-03-19T10:21:17.832-07:002014-03-19T10:21:17.832-07:00The "16,000 new IRS agents" claim is a f...The "16,000 new IRS agents" claim is a flat-out lie, of course. Former Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas even claimed in a televised interview that all 16,500 would be carrying guns. This claim has been debunked by Factcheck.com and others. Do some real research for once instead of falling for shit on the Blaze, or Drudge, or Breitbart or some other fake "news" site. Oh, and Social Security and Medicare aren't bankrupt, either. And Bellar was never a nun, although she claimed to be. Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-72322898683602383272014-03-18T18:57:39.843-07:002014-03-18T18:57:39.843-07:00Good one, Boy Wonder! Bellar lost the election AND...Good one, Boy Wonder! Bellar lost the election AND lied about being a nun. She also lied about where she obtained her medical degree. Keep 'em, coming, Boy Wonder!Jimnoreply@blogger.com