He lied. Stop with the "I smoked but I didn't inhale" excuses. That doesn't work with people's lives.
Obama knowingly and repeated lied. If Obamacare is as great as it was sold why aren't the enrollment numbers thru the roof? As before, it appears LESS people have private insurance than before 2014. Your retort: Blaming Bush. You are approaching moronic buffoon territory.
Have more self-respect Assup.
Originally Posted by gnadfly
Gadfly, you have your presidents confused. Clinton used the smoked but did not inhale excuse.
The grandfather rules are as much a part of the ACA law as the range of income for which one can receive a subsidy. The I/T department of each insurance company decided to create the cancellation letters instead of complying with the grandfather rules to allow old the policies to be continued.
It's all here. Even your buddy JD, said it's projections with REAL numbers. Let's see how they play out. The CBO projected 8 million insured in private plans on the exchanges for 2014. The website was down for 2 months, so that projection will not be realized. The real test is will 25 million more people 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]
