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Redstate
New
Gallup numbers pour cold water all over one of the Democrats’
remaining defenses of ObamaCare
By
Dan Spencer
January
23rd, 2014
According
to Gallup, which has been measuring the percentage of uninsured
Americans monthly since 2008, the current rate of uninsured Americans
is stuck at 16.1%.
A
quick look at the trends will show you that percentage is almost the
same as what it was when President Obama took office in January 2009,
and nearly identical to the rate of uninsured in March 2010, when the
Democrats jammed ObamaCare through Congress on a strictly party line
vote.
Oh
the problematic irony. The Democrat Party, from President Obama on
down, repeatedly lectured us that passing their big government
healthcare law was the only way to reduce the number of uninsured. With
the enrollment deadline for ObamaCare rapidly approaching, its
looking like that was another lie.
Even
the nonpartisan Gallup poll, while not explicitly pointing it out,
hinted that this number is not welcome news for the White House:
“Still,
with only 2.1 million Americans newly enrolled in plans through the
exchanges as of Dec. 28, 2013, the Obama administration and other
proponents of the new healthcare law have a long way to go in hopes
of reaching the goal of increasing the number of Americans who have
health coverage.”
During
the final months of the Bush Administration and the 2008 presidential
campaign, the rate of uninsured was 13.9%. Back then Democrats
critiqued that as unacceptably high. Now they’re silent. If
Democrats choose to acknowledge this poll at all (which they won’t),
they’ll point to the fact that the rate of uninsured has dropped
from the all-time high of 18.6% in the middle of 2013. But much of
that can be contributed to the mass confusion of cancelled plans and
changing providers that millions of Americans experienced last year
as a result of the ObamaCare train wreck…
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the rest of the article at Redstate
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