PoliticalChic
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Passed entirely with Democrat votes....lies abound.....even Democrats running from it at election time.....
...but, according to a certain community organizer......just awesome!
Here, let's bring you up to date:
1. " ...growth in national health-care spending of 3.7 percent for 2012, the fourth consecutive year of slow growth.
2. Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, attributed the slow spending growth to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
3. .... Furman failed to explain how the slowing growth in health-care costs that began in 2008-09 could be attributed to a statute passed in 2010, and whose major provisions did not go into effect until 2014.
4. And he failed to mention that the CMS authors attributed the slowdown in health spending to the recession (the study reported that the passage of Obamacare had only a minimal impact on health-care costs).
[This administrastion: if they can't come up with a lie of commission, they'll settle for a lie of omission.]
5. Now, the White House is celebrating a report from the Commerce Departments Bureau of Economic Analysis that GDP rose just 0.1 percentduring the first quarter of 2014.
a. Were it not for increased spending on health carewhich added 1.1 percent to the GDPthe change would actually have been negative.
6. Rather than address the faltering economy, the administration again seized the opportunity to hype the ACA. .... Furman projected that increased health-care spending will create a tailwind for the economy for the next two years.
7. As more people gain insurance and use their new coverage, health-care costs will naturally rise. But one of the ACAs selling points was that it would save people moneyit is the Affordable Care Act,.... the laws programs that were supposed to decrease costs have been withdrawn, are inoperative, or are not delivering as promised.
8. ... networks of doctors and hospitals that are supposed reap savings by coordinating medical care for patientsare off to an inauspicious start, with many groups withdrawing from the program because of an inability to generate savings.
9. What will increased health-care spending under the ACA get us? The results of the much-noted Oregon Medicaid-expansion study are instructiveand discouraging. Those who gained Medicaid coverage reported higher utilization of services and much higher medical expenditures but little or no improvement in health outcomes.
10.... more than half the people gaining coverage under the ACA are doing so via Medicaid and it remains unclear how many people will gain private insuranceno one knows how many health-care exchange enrollees have actually paid for their insurance or were previously uninsured...."
Obamacare Is Awesome! by Joel Zinberg, City Journal 14 May 2014
Did you get this part: "...no improvement in health outcomes."
The Obama legacy: lies, fraud, and failure.
What does that say about his voters?
...but, according to a certain community organizer......just awesome!
Here, let's bring you up to date:
1. " ...growth in national health-care spending of 3.7 percent for 2012, the fourth consecutive year of slow growth.
2. Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, attributed the slow spending growth to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
3. .... Furman failed to explain how the slowing growth in health-care costs that began in 2008-09 could be attributed to a statute passed in 2010, and whose major provisions did not go into effect until 2014.
4. And he failed to mention that the CMS authors attributed the slowdown in health spending to the recession (the study reported that the passage of Obamacare had only a minimal impact on health-care costs).
[This administrastion: if they can't come up with a lie of commission, they'll settle for a lie of omission.]
5. Now, the White House is celebrating a report from the Commerce Departments Bureau of Economic Analysis that GDP rose just 0.1 percentduring the first quarter of 2014.
a. Were it not for increased spending on health carewhich added 1.1 percent to the GDPthe change would actually have been negative.
6. Rather than address the faltering economy, the administration again seized the opportunity to hype the ACA. .... Furman projected that increased health-care spending will create a tailwind for the economy for the next two years.
7. As more people gain insurance and use their new coverage, health-care costs will naturally rise. But one of the ACAs selling points was that it would save people moneyit is the Affordable Care Act,.... the laws programs that were supposed to decrease costs have been withdrawn, are inoperative, or are not delivering as promised.
8. ... networks of doctors and hospitals that are supposed reap savings by coordinating medical care for patientsare off to an inauspicious start, with many groups withdrawing from the program because of an inability to generate savings.
9. What will increased health-care spending under the ACA get us? The results of the much-noted Oregon Medicaid-expansion study are instructiveand discouraging. Those who gained Medicaid coverage reported higher utilization of services and much higher medical expenditures but little or no improvement in health outcomes.
10.... more than half the people gaining coverage under the ACA are doing so via Medicaid and it remains unclear how many people will gain private insuranceno one knows how many health-care exchange enrollees have actually paid for their insurance or were previously uninsured...."
Obamacare Is Awesome! by Joel Zinberg, City Journal 14 May 2014
Did you get this part: "...no improvement in health outcomes."
The Obama legacy: lies, fraud, and failure.
What does that say about his voters?