{"id":35515,"date":"2019-02-25T12:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35515"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:38:37","slug":"the-real-numbers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35515","title":{"rendered":"The Real Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday The Daily Signal<\/a> posted an article about the consequences of winding down ObamaCare. It seems that the press and the Congressional Budget Office lied to Americans about the consequences of repealing ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

According to a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office wildly overestimated the number of people who would lose their health insurance with the repeal of the individual mandate penalty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Initial estimates from the Congressional Budget Office said 14 million would drop off their health insurance coverage due to the elimination of the individual mandate. Then, during the height of the 2017 debate over repeal, progressives touted a leaked number from the Congressional Budget Office claiming that 22 million people would \u201close\u201d their insurance if Congress repealed the law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, as health care analyst Avik Roy pointed out<\/a>, what made this number so high was the inflated number of people expected to lose their insurance due to repeal of the mandate\u2014about 73 percent to be exact. So, it wouldn\u2019t be 22 million Americans losing their insurance. Most of those in the projection would simply be choosing to opt out of insurance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And it turns out even that wasn\u2019t true. A far smaller number of Americans appear to be opting out of insurance since the individual mandate\u2019s repeal. Only 2.5 million more people are expected to go without insurance in 2019 due to its repeal, according to the latest report, and that number is expected to decline in the years ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Putting the government in charge of healthcare is always a bad idea. Economist Milton Friedman once stated, \u201cIf you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there\u2019d be a shortage of sand.\u201d The government is not responsible for providing healthcare to anyone. Charitable hospitals and charitable organizations are welcome to take on that responsibility, but government healthcare is nowhere to be found in the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

The article further states:<\/p>\n

Doug Badger, a visiting fellow in domestic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal that Congressional Budget Office analysis has been a chronic problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to the individual mandate, CBO has never let the facts affect their wildly inaccurate estimates. CBO continued to forecast that millions of insured Americans would suddenly become uninsured if the mandate were repealed,\u201d Badger wrote in an email to The Daily Signal. \u201cCBO\u2019s faulty estimates misled the public into believing that repealing Obamacare would lead to a vast increase in the number of uninsured. Bad estimates produced bad policy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many conservatives are fed up with the deference shown to the agency, given it\u2019s poor track record and track of transparency. Reps. Mark Walker, R-N.C., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, suggested<\/a> in 2017 that it\u2019s time to stop \u201cblindly\u201d following the agency\u2019s predictions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe value of having outside experts review legislation cannot be understated,\u201d they wrote for the Washington Examiner. \u201cBut continuing to hinge congressional actions on the projections of an agency that has proven to be so consistently wrong does a disservice to not only members trying to represent their constituents, it primarily does a disservice to the public.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wrote<\/a> in 2017 that perhaps we should be more skeptical toward the findings of independent agencies like the Congressional Budget Office. It seems those doubts were valid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People based their votes on the information they were given. It is a shame that a government agency provided inaccurate information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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