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Sharpest Drop In Uninsured Since 2008
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nxylas
(6,440 posts)Guess what's in today's Wall Street Journal?
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579481402659166832
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)marble falls
(57,063 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,229 posts)glowing
(12,233 posts)The right wing nut jobs have found this out now and are calling for Boehner's head.... Ridiculous idiots... They can reap what they have sewed for all I care!
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)13.3 then vs 16.1% uninsured now. Looks better if you don't look at the details...
Still, a great graphic.
This is good news, though. Since we have made the support of bankers a priority instead of investing in working people (cutting money to schools, removing unemployment, making sure the wealthy get an extra tax break on money they didn't earn), there aren't enough jobs, especially for younger people. But the kids can still have insurance, up to 26, while they duck the student loan collection folks.
Hell of a job.
AAO
(3,300 posts)Inconceivable!
Lysistrada
(20 posts)Hope ACA keeps on bringing that number down.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)What I want to do is charge the Koch brothers for the environmental damage they've done. Wait for it--especially for the cost of remediating climate change. (You know that's their biggest fear.)
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)progree
(10,901 posts)Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)It shows better insurance rates when Bush was in office.
progree
(10,901 posts)Beginning in Janurary 2007. One can always come up with a "progressive" explanation for almost anything.
There's some discussion in the comments section of (not all of which agree with my "progressive" explanation)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/07/1290256/-Gallup-The-uninsured-rate-is-lowest-since-nbsp-2008#
I haven't absorbed it all but I noticed this link in the comment:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2011/cpshealthins2011/ib.shtml
1999 - 2010 uninsured went from 13.6% to 16.3% in a roughly straight line way (or more accurately a mostly monotonically increasing way), according to Figure 2.
polynomial
(750 posts)Being an Eisenhower Republican on the side of this new health care reform is something new for me. This Republican Party of today is not Conservative as they define themselves. Some notes and inspirational wisdom from this source below
http://www.thefinalbranch.com/the-declaration-of-independence/the-source-of-liberty-the-masquerade-of-tyranny/
Sin is tyranny! At its most basic level the objective of sin is to dominate thoughts, dictate behaviors, and divide and create discord in a persons life. Sin is evil, its sole focus is to attack liberty for something much more shallow, short lived, and altogether evil tyranny! You see America, there is no middle ground when it comes between tyranny or liberty. Either our hearts are being redeemed towards liberty or our hearts through the instrument of sin are being devoured into deeper and deeper forms of tyranny. Patrick Henry said,
Give me Liberty or give me death! At least for that fine American, he saw into the depths of sin and the despair of tyranny and understood the gravity of both. Do you? Do I? Does this nation? I think not.
With that said these new Republican Tea Profiteer partyeers if you like are a spinoff of OZ a long political masquerade behind the mainstream media curtain. As a popular romantic poet Shelly wrote in The masquerade of Tyranny or that of Shelley's Ozymandias.
An extended pause is needed after listening to hate radio while Rush Limbaugh slurries, grunts passionate political fiction. The Huckleberry report on ABC hate radio by Huckabee the wanabee, spewing out twisted logic woven corrupt political delirium. The one percent tyranny of hate that owns eighty percent of America feels its being picked on. Who else is there?
The Waterloo is the Water gate now the XL pipeline...The new Plumbers of politics. Anyone for tea, where is the bottle water?