According to the latest Congressional Budget Office report, summarized by CNS News, we’ll still have 30 million non-elderly Americans without insurance in 2022. Why, that’s the same number Barack Obama touted as currently uninsured when he was pushing ObamaCare! But of course, he had to stop including illegal aliens in that figure, which is itself inflated by various questionable methods of counting people as “uninsured.” Throw in the illegal aliens and you get to a maxed-out number of 53 million uninsured – a number that has begun reappearing in Democrat mythology as they eyeball those sour public-opinion polls. Which brings us to this curious passage from the report: “CBO and JCT [Joint Committee on Taxation] now estimate that the ACA, in comparison with prior law before the enactment of the ACA, will reduce the number of nonelderly people without health insurance coverage by 14 million in 2014 and by 29 million or 30 million in the latter part of the coming decade, leaving 30 million nonelderly residents uninsured by the end of the period,” the report said. “Before the Supreme Court’s decision, the latter number had been 27 million,” states the report. Soo… ten years of gigantic government spending and job-killing burdens on American business will change the number of uninsured from 27 million to 30 million? And could we hear some more about the effect “prior law before the enactment of the ACA” was having on the ranks of the uninsured, so we know exactly how much of the improvement is coming from the Affordable Care Act, which is going to cost us at least $1.3 trillion by 2023? How excited are we supposed to be about a program that spends $56,000 a head to reduce the total number of uninsured Americans by 24 million people? Does it matter that the reshuffled population of uninsured will include a large number of individuals who paid the tax/penalty for the privilege of not buying insurance? What’s going to happen to all these best-case projections when insurance providers and medical clinics close up shop? And how much use is “coverage” with massive out-of-pocket expenses to many of the people who are currently having difficulty obtaining health insurance? Plans only covers 60/ 70 percent of the "reasonable," "usual and customary" or “prevailing” charge. Which means youout of pocket costs can be way more. That’s a special problem for people with high-deductible plans, who may be responsible for the first $6,350 or even $12,700 of their health expenses every year. humanevents/2013/09/26/obamacare-out-of-pocket/
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:26:43 +0000
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