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Originally Posted by Whirlaway
According to the CBO reports..................
Obama destroys an existing health insurance system (1/7th of our economy); replaces it with an equally awful insurance exchange, and we end up with the same number of Americans uninsured, higher costs, and lower services ?
Obama's idea of "transforming" America.
We've been punked by Obama and the Democrats.
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Do you have a link Whirly? You have nothing but bad Math. According to the CBO projections below the ACA will insure 32 million more citizens by 2019. There are 8 million illegal aliens who do not qualify for an Obamacare policy or Medicaid. The total number of people who will be left uninsured for various reasons is 22 million. Up to 94% of the country will be insured after 2019.
Here is an accounting of the number of people who will be left uninsured. Some people will be eligible for Medicaid, but will not sign up for it. Some people will choose to not get health insurance and pay the tax, plus the 8 million illegal aliens. From the link below.
The ACA has two primary mechanisms for increasing insurance coverage: expanding
Medicaid eligibility to include individuals within 138% of the federal poverty level,
[43] and creating
state-based insurance exchanges where individuals and small business can buy health insurance plans—those individuals with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level will be eligible for subsidies to do so.
[38][30] The CBO originally estimated that the legislation will reduce the number of uninsured residents by 32 million, leaving 23 million uninsured residents in 2019 after the bill's provisions have all taken effect.
[121][122][123] With the elderly covered by Medicare, the CBO estimate projected that the law would raise the proportion of insured non-elderly citizens from 83% to 94%.
[121] A July 2012 CBO estimate raised the expected number of uninsured by 3 million, reflecting
the successful legal challenge to the ACA's expansion of Medicaid.
[124][125]
Among the people who will remain uninsured:
ACA drafters believed that increasing insurance coverage would not only improve quality of life but also help reduce
medical bankruptcies (currently the leading cause of bankruptcy in America
[128]) and
job lock.
[129] In addition, many believed that expanding coverage would help ensure that the cost controls successfully function; healthcare providers could more easily adapt to payment system reforms that incentivize value over quantity if their costs were partially offset—for example, hospitals having to do less
charity care or insurers having larger and more stable
risk pools to distribute costs over.
[130]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient...dable_Care_Act