It’s beyond nutty. The entire discussion of Obamacare no longer focuses on the real risks the law poses to Americans who find themselves uninsured and ineligible for Medicaid, or to Americans under-insured which will ultimately represent a larger and larger percentage of us as better plans become unaffordable, and the jeopardy faced even by those receiving Obamacare handouts find when they realize that the “help” they’re getting with premiums is not enough to cover the real risk of medical costs for needed medical services when they get sick…Instead, currently, it’s all about how many people are “enrolling” via the exchange.
Reality check time. The fabulous news of 2/12/2014 announcing, “US Uninsured Rate drops,” or some other equally misleading headline, (see for example, gallup.com, uninsured, February 2014) is accompanied by a graph that clearly shows that WHATEVER they’re trying to prove, the number of uninsured in this country in January of ’09 was under 16 percent, which if you recall was considered a crisis large enough for “Obamacare,” AND the graph shows that since January ’09 the number of uninsured has never fallen below 16 percent even with the optimistic numbers game being played.
The bottom line is we have this law. It was adopted based on lazy legislators who didn’t read it, partisan “reporters,” who didn’t discuss it and dishonest politicians who lied about it. Today, there is no number less relevant to consumers than the total number of those enrolled in Obamacare…It’s made up news.
The ONLY impact such numbers have is on is how much less will be covered by health insurance companies in the coming year and/or how much more will be charged for such dwindling coverage, and how many people will be unable to afford anything but worse coverage enlarging one of the biggest problems with this law, the creation of an underinsured class who will face serious economic hardship in the event they have an actual illness or condition requiring medical care that they need the tool of health insurance to help pay for.
