A) Politifact.com SAID!!
The Census Bureau breaks out that information and reports that 9.7 million of the uninsured are noncitizens.
So the number of Americans without insurance is actually closer to 36 million.
OK so where was I wrong?????
That leaves 36 million...
B) Politicfact totally ignored what the Census SAID:
2) Did you know that the CENSUS AGREES with this statement:
"Of the 44.7 million non-elderly uninsured individuals identified in the 2004 Census Current Population Survey (CPS) data,
nearly one-third —
almost 14 million —
were reachable through existing government health programs such as Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under current rules!
That means of the 36 million there were EVEN BEFORE ACA 14 million people that qualified and needed to be
reached for existing government health programs!!! Did Politifact comprehend what the Census did that 14 million people were REACHABLE..!
http://coverageforall.org/pdf/BC-BS_Uninsured-America.pdf
So that leaves 22 million!
3) Politicfact made NO mention that 18 million people under 34 making over $50,000 a year didn't WANT to use their employers health plan. Didn't need it!
Yet Politicfact totally ignored these 18 million...
CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009
THAT leaves 4 million of the supposedly 46 million which was the pathetic downtrodden number Obama/et.al. used to pass by just 7 votes ACA!
ALSO having lived in Tampa Bay I KNOW Politifact.org VERY VERY WELL!
They are owned by the NON-Profit tax avoiding Poynter Institute.
What YOU obviously don't know about PolitiFact and St Pete times (Now Tampa Bay times) is they are also called "Pravada West".. because they are extremely
liberal and totally biased!
Visit this BIASED WHICH they honestly describe themselves as biased web page to see how disgustingly BIASED Politfact is BUT WON"T ADMIT IT!!:
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