{"id":33497,"date":"2018-05-25T06:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T10:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33497"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T10:33:56","slug":"not-really-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33497","title":{"rendered":"Not Really A Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Spectator<\/a> posted an article today that tells us everything we already knew about ObamaCare. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has just released a report about uninsured Americans.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Anyone with the intestinal fortitude to subject themselves to the legacy media will have seen countless \u201cnews\u201d stories about the devastation wrought by President Trump\u2019s \u201csabotage\u201d of Obamacare. A typical headline appeared a couple of weeks ago in the Washington Post<\/em>: \u201cAmericans are starting to suffer from Trump\u2019s health-care sabotage.\u201d This work of fiction claimed\u00a0<\/a>that the number of working-age<\/em>Americans without health insurance had risen to 15.5 percent, a 3 point increase since 2016. But a report just released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), says\u00a0<\/a>the real number is 12.8 percent \u2014 exactly what it was in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…NBC recently reported\u00a0<\/a>that the total number\u00a0<\/em>of uninsured Americans rose by a preposterous 3.2 million in 2017. According to the CDC, however, \u201cThere was no significant change from the 2016 uninsured rate.\u201d The percentage is, like the working age statistic, precisely what it was in 2015. NBC, parroting the Post<\/em>, based its uninsured propaganda on an unreliable source.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a few things to keep in mind when evaluating ObamaCare. The first is that is was never about health insurance–it was about giving government control of a major sector of the American economy and a major sector of people’s lives. We have seeen how well socialized medicine works in Britain when a child isn’t even given a chance to leave the country to receive alternative medical care that could possibly save his life. ObamaCare was a planned failure that would lead to socialized medicine in America during the presidency of Hillary Clinton. We have dodged that bullet (at least temporarily).<\/p>\n

The major change that occurred to ObamaCare this year was the end of government subsidies to insurance companies and changing rules for insurance pools to make it easier for people to get health insurance in various groups. The real answer to health insurance is the free market–let companies compete without being over-regulated and let people know how much they are actually paying for healthcare services. It would also help to end ObamaCare completely. In order to end ObamaCare completely, the Republicans would have to learn how to get their message out over the din of the mainstream media. They would also have to develop a spine.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

A multi-year study dubbed the \u201cOregon Health Experiment,\u201d whose results were published\u00a0<\/a>in the New England Journal\u00a0<\/em>of Medicine in May of 2014, has demonstrated that health outcomes for Medicaid patients are no better than those enjoyed by the uninsured. Scott Gottlieb, the current Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, summarized various Medicaid studies in the Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>and also concluded that being covered by Medicaid is demonstrably worse for your health than having no coverage at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CDC report doesn\u2019t weigh in on this issue, of course. It just attempts to show us where the uninsured rate was and where it is now. But that is damning enough. It not only shows that the projections originally touted\u00a0<\/a>for Obamacare were wildly off the mark \u2014 it was supposed to have brought the non-elderly uninsured rate down to 7.6 percent by 2016 \u2014 it demonstrates that the Democrats and their media co-conspirators have been lying about what the real uninsured numbers are as well as President Trump\u2019s role in their mythical increase. Not that this is new. The Democrats and the media have been lying about Obamacare from day one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As more Americans realize that the media has been lying to them from the beginning, we may have a chance to get rid of ObamaCare. Until then, we are stuck with it.<\/p>\n

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