When will people REALIZE the premise for passing ACA was false in the first place!
4 million truly uninsured need to be covered YES...
BUT don't throw the baby out with the bathwater...i.e. WHY are you idiots not satisfied with solving the problem of 4 million without DESTROYING the rest of our health care system!!
What I've learned about the numbers YOU post ... they tend to be complete bullshit. Like when you [falsely] posted 5 million jobs were added under Bush according to establishment data -- only the real number was 1.1 million. Or like when you [falsely] posted 2.5 million jobs were lost because of 9.11, when the actual wording of the article you linked in support of that idiocy was that 2.5 million jobs were lost "SINCE" 9.11, not "BECAUSE" of it.
So hopefully, you can understand why I find it completely meaningless when YOU claim there were only 4 million
"truly uninsured."
1) Prove this number is wrong! 10 million not citizens
go to the link:
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 - Income & Wealth - Newsroom - U.S. Census Bureau
2) Prove this number is wrong! 14 million people who SAY they are UNINSURED YET all they need to is register with MEDICAID and this was before ACA!!!
go to the link:
http://coverageforall.org/pdf/BC-BS_Uninsured-America.pdf
Tell these people their research was MEANINGLESS!!!
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 ChildrenÂ’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under current rules.
The Actuarial Research Corporation (ARC) estimates that about 9 million of these individuals actually were enrolled in Medicaid during the year, but were categorized as uninsured in the
Census survey. In the latest Census health insurance report, the Census Bureau acknowledges that the survey “…
underreports Medicare and Medicaid coverage compared with enrollment
and participation data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).” According to ARC, this “Medicaid undercount” leads to an over-assessment of the uninsured
population and needs to be taken into consideration when developing uninsured estimates. While this view is shared by some policy analysts, others disagree and there is no consensus.
It is important that this issue be resolved so that targeted solutions for the uninsured can be developed based on the most accurate data possible.
Among uninsured individuals eligible for public programs, but not enrolled during the year:
89 percent were in working families,
41 percent were children under the age of 18 who could be
enrolled in Medicaid and/or SCHIP, and 44 percent were Hispanic"
Page 4 of the above document IF YOU CARE TO CHECK THE FACTS!!!
3) Prove this number is wrong! 18 million that don't need...
CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009
Nearly 18 million of the uninsured lived in households with annual incomes above $50,000 --
over half of them (9.7 million) in households with incomes that exceed $75,000 annually.
SO again ADD 10 million plus 14 million plus 18 million comes up to 42 million subtracted from 46 million equals 4 million!
4 million truly uninsured that want and need NOT 46 million!
OH and by the way...
Year End AVERAGE/year
2000...... 131,785,000 dot.com and recession starting!!!
2001...... 131,826,000 41,000 dot com Recession that started 3/01 ended 11/11 /9/11
2002...... 130,341,000 -1,485,000 effect off 9/11
2003...... 129,999,000 -342,000
2004...... 131,435,000 1,436,000
2005...... 133,703,000 2,268,000
2006...... 136,086,000 2,383,000
2007...... 137,598,000 1,512,000
2008...... 136,790,000 -808,000 Sep 18,2008 $500 billion withdrew almost collapsing world economies!
5 million net more people working then at the end of 2000.
YOU simply Subtract the AVERAGE for the year 2000 which was 131,785,000 employed peopled FROM the end of 2008 and the AVERAGE for the year was 136,790,000 equals:5,005,000 MORE!
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Historical_employment_data.pdf
YES it is an average of all the years for each year!!!
So f..king what?? There were 5,005,000 more jobs in 2008 then at the end of 2000!! PROVE THAT WRONG!
AND as far as :
"Or like when you [falsely] posted 2.5 million jobs were lost because of 9.11,
when the actual wording of the article you linked in support of that idiocy was that 2.5 million jobs were lost "SINCE" 9.11, not "BECAUSE" of it."
I WAS WRONG!!! I WAS WRONG!!!
NOW if you have the guts to PROVE the ABOVE STATEMENTS ARE WRONG as I stated I WAS WRONG to say "BECAUSE" then do it!
Prove the above statements ARE WRONG!
Prove me wrong and I promise I WILL NEVER Post another comment that there are only 4 million uninsured!
PROVE ME WRONG! AND I'll do as I did above STATE clearly I WAS WRONG!!!