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Meanwhile, 115,470,000 were on government health insurance at some time during the year. “Government health insurance includes federal programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), individual state health plans, TRICARE, CHAMPVA (Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs), as well as care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the military,” said the Census Bureau report “Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2014.”
the Census Bureau report "Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2014,: showing that the number of people on government health insurance increased by 7,183,000 from 2013 to 2014 and the number of uninsured declined by 8,828,000.
According to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement, as reported in Table A-2 of the report, the number of people who were uninsured dropped by 8,828,000 from 2013 to 2014, but the number on government insurance increased by 7,183,000. That means that the increase in the number who were insured by government equaled about 81.4 percent of the decline in the uninsured. According to the Census Bureau report, the number of people with government health insurance climbed from 108,287,000 in 2013 to 115,470,000 in 2014—an increase of 7,183,000. The number who were uninsured dropped from 41,795,000 to 32,968,000--a decline of 8,828,000.
Census Bureau report "Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2014," showing that the number of people on Medicaid increased by 6,731,000 from 2013 to 2014, rising from 54,919,000 to 61,650,000.
The number on Medicaid, according to the report, climbed from 54,919,000 in 2013 to 61,650,000 in 2014—an increase of 6,731,000. “In 2014, most people (89.6 percent) had health insurance coverage at some point during the calendar year, with more people having private health insurance coverage (66.0 percent) than government coverage (36.5 percent),” said the Census report. “Of the subtypes of health insurance, employer-based insurance covered the most people (55.4 percent of the population), followed by Medicaid (19.5 percent), Medicare (16.0 percent), direct-purchase (14.6 percent), and military health care (4.5 percent).”
“Between 2013 and 2014, the percentage of people covered by any type of health insurance increased by 2.9 percentage points to 89.6 percent in 2014, up from 86.7 percent in 2013,” said the report. “The increase in the percentage of the population covered by health insurance was due to an increase in the rates of both private and government coverage. The rate of private coverage increased by 1.8 percentage points to 66.0 percent in 2014 (up from 64.1 percent in 2013), and the government coverage rate increased by 2.0 percentage points to 36.5 percent (up from 34.6 percent in 2013).”
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Wasn't it pretty much written that obie will be out of office before all these costs go into effect? It's not an accident.And we've been warned that the biggest price increases are still ahead.
In many cases, deductibles are so high that people must pay many thousands of dollars out of pocket before their "insurance" kicks in. So they are often skipping procedures entirely rather than pay the high costs.
And all the while liberals are chortling that those people are now "insured" when they pretty much aren't.