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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFacts: 1. Pundits: 0. ObamaCare is a huge success.
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/facts-1-pundits-0-obamacare-is-a-huge-success/"Though you wouldnt know it from all the doom and gloom emanating from the wingnut whores/pundits of the Right, over nine million more of the American people now have health insurance, thanks entirely to President Obama and Democrats (the GOP, you will remember, voted for none of it). From the article:
The long-awaited Rand Corp. study of Obamacares effect on health insurance coverage was released Tuesday and confirmed the numbers that had been telegraphed for more than a week: At least 9.3 million more Americans have health insurance now than in September 2013, virtually all of them as a result of the law.
Thats a net figure, accommodating all those who lost their individual health insurance because of cancellations. The Rand study confirms other surveys that placed the number of people who lost their old insurance and did not or could not replace it the focus of an enormous volume of anti-Obamacare rhetoric at less than 1 million. The Rand experts call this a very small number, less than 1% of the U.S. population age 18 to 64.
Rand is not some rinky-dinky outfit: they have been around for decades and are the uber-competent and impartial number-crunching outfit. They dont give a rats fart about which party is in power, because they know both Repubs and Dems need them.
Compared with the idiotic, fact-challenged, hyper-partisan punditocracy, Punditocracy, there really isnt much of a choice to be made here: facts rule, and blowhards drool.
The ACA is working, and facts prove it. Anybody who says otherwise is a liar or an idiot. Either way, they lose."
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Facts: 1. Pundits: 0. ObamaCare is a huge success. (Original Post)
riqster
Apr 2014
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sailfla
(239 posts)1. Blow your horn Dems
riqster
(13,986 posts)2. Damn straight. 100% of the credit goes to us.
Wounded Bear
(58,618 posts)3. There you go posting those nasty misleading facts again...
riqster
(13,986 posts)4. Well, you caught me in the act. Busted.