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Remember when the architect hired by Obama to design Obamacare told us:
"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber said. "And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."
Gruber made the comment while discussing how the law was "written in a tortured way" to avoid a bad score from the Congressional Budget Office. He suggested that voters would have rejected ObamaCare if the penalties for going without health insurance were interpreted as taxes, either by budget analysts or the public.
ObamaCare architect: 'Stupidity' of voters helped bill pass
Now Gruber says 63% of Obamacare enrollment came from people eligible BEFORE Obamacare!
Gruber and his coauthors, using data from the Census Bureau, estimate that Medicaid “produced 63% of the gains [in coverage] that we identified” for 2014.
They also found that much of this gain was attributable to the enrollment in Medicaid of people who were eligible for the program under criteria that preceded the ACA’s Medicaid expansion: Perhaps less obviously, we also found a substantial increase in Medicaid coverage among children and adults who were already eligible for the program before 2014. This population accounted for 44% of the coverage increase.
New Gruber Study Raises Major Questions About Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion
ACA Enrollment Final Numbers for 2017—A Cautionary Tale for Trump and Republicans | THCB
FOLKS REMEMBER this document I've put up clearly identifying there NEVER WERE 46 million uninsured Americans???
FALSEHOOD 2)... 14 million were eligible for MEDICAID!!!!
So folks. If Politifact said Obama was sloppy counting 10 million illegals and now Gruber says 14 million were already eligible for Medicaid BEFORE Obamacare... what does that leave us to prove I was right?
hmmm.... Medical savings accounts! Yea that's the ticket!
Washington, D.C. – Nearly 19.7 million Americans are covered by Health Savings Account (HSA)-eligible insurance plans, an increase of approximately 2 million enrollees since January 2014, according to a new census released today by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).
New Census Survey Shows Continued Growth in HSA Enrollment - AHIP
Hmmm... nearly 20 million and what was the number of people that didn't want under age 34...hmmm
oh yea... 18 million. Strange interesting correlation here wouldn't you think..
"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber said. "And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."
Gruber made the comment while discussing how the law was "written in a tortured way" to avoid a bad score from the Congressional Budget Office. He suggested that voters would have rejected ObamaCare if the penalties for going without health insurance were interpreted as taxes, either by budget analysts or the public.
ObamaCare architect: 'Stupidity' of voters helped bill pass
Now Gruber says 63% of Obamacare enrollment came from people eligible BEFORE Obamacare!
Gruber and his coauthors, using data from the Census Bureau, estimate that Medicaid “produced 63% of the gains [in coverage] that we identified” for 2014.
They also found that much of this gain was attributable to the enrollment in Medicaid of people who were eligible for the program under criteria that preceded the ACA’s Medicaid expansion: Perhaps less obviously, we also found a substantial increase in Medicaid coverage among children and adults who were already eligible for the program before 2014. This population accounted for 44% of the coverage increase.
New Gruber Study Raises Major Questions About Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion
ACA Enrollment Final Numbers for 2017—A Cautionary Tale for Trump and Republicans | THCB
FOLKS REMEMBER this document I've put up clearly identifying there NEVER WERE 46 million uninsured Americans???
FALSEHOOD 2)... 14 million were eligible for MEDICAID!!!!
So folks. If Politifact said Obama was sloppy counting 10 million illegals and now Gruber says 14 million were already eligible for Medicaid BEFORE Obamacare... what does that leave us to prove I was right?
hmmm.... Medical savings accounts! Yea that's the ticket!
Washington, D.C. – Nearly 19.7 million Americans are covered by Health Savings Account (HSA)-eligible insurance plans, an increase of approximately 2 million enrollees since January 2014, according to a new census released today by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).
New Census Survey Shows Continued Growth in HSA Enrollment - AHIP
Hmmm... nearly 20 million and what was the number of people that didn't want under age 34...hmmm
oh yea... 18 million. Strange interesting correlation here wouldn't you think..