The Congressional Budget Office just came out with a report on the effects that “Obamacare” will have on the economy and on the health insurance status of the American people. As reported by John Podhoretz in the New York Post, it's not so good. On page 111, it says:
That's fewer! So, people may say, “That's not so bad; people will pick up their insurance on the exchanges, and this will lead to more coverage altogether.” But the report also says:
Now note that when President Obama was selling “Obamacare” to the American people in September 2009, he said:
So in 2024, we will have approximately the same number of uninsured Americans as we has in 2009! All this tampering with the health insurance of millions of Americans, merely to tread water?
Read Podhoretz's column. It's illuminating.
As a result of the ACA, between 6 million and 7 million fewer people will have employment-based insurance coverage each year from 2016 through 2024 than would be the case in the absence of the ACA.
That's fewer! So, people may say, “That's not so bad; people will pick up their insurance on the exchanges, and this will lead to more coverage altogether.” But the report also says:
About 31 million nonelderly residents of the United States are likely to be without health insurance in 2024, roughly one out of every nine such residents.
Now note that when President Obama was selling “Obamacare” to the American people in September 2009, he said:
[T]here are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage.
So in 2024, we will have approximately the same number of uninsured Americans as we has in 2009! All this tampering with the health insurance of millions of Americans, merely to tread water?
Read Podhoretz's column. It's illuminating.
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