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  1. “….how many will end up defaulting on their payments?” Answer: A bunch. I’ve been saying this for a long time.
    The drs. and hospitals will end up absorbing a lot of costs because the gov’t will just not give out the info when someone lets their insurance lapse or they will give a 90 day grace period in which a person can run up thousands of medical expenses.

  2. Let me get this straight. After spending hundreds of millions of dollars and threatening people with IRS penalties, greatly expanding Medicaid, and turning the insurance system and health care system upside down, we have reduced the percent uninsured by about two percent. What a crappy deal. What a country!

  3. This reminds me of how the federal government tried to increase the percentage of home owners, and we know how that turned out. Poor folks have poor ways.

  4. (f) The effect on the overall economy as discretionary spending by the middle class will decline when they pay significantly more on health care due to higher insurance premiums and deductibles.

  5. Ah yes, the famous “Adults aged 18 and older”. Not citizens, mind you, just “adults”.. I am so tired of this shit. Gallup could limit their poll to nominal citizens and put up a big flag that said citizenship could not be verified, just as none, yes none, of the other parameters (age, race, income) can be verified either.

  6. “Stop the presses: rate of uninsured lowest since late 2008!”

    Wow, that’s fabulous! Now we can all declare success in making healthcare available to all. Nothing to see here. Move along.

  7. “Stop the presses: rate of uninsured lowest since late 2008!”

    After 5+ years of struggle and laser like focus the evil of Bush is beginning to retreat into the shadows. Soon VB DAY (victory over Bush) will be proclaimed and BHO will share the stage with the Reverand Al as they barnstorm across the fruited plain on AF1.

  8. Progressives will always choose the image of “helping out” over substance. Now everyone will have insurance with inferior healthcare. Looks amazingly like all the college degrees and the poorly educated.

  9. So let me see if I have this right: We upended the entire health insurance industry and spent billions of dollars and the uninsured rate is almost as low as when Bush left the White House?

  10. Everything that the left promotes is a lie, including all the Obamacare numbers.

    They promote ideas and such purely as a tactical matter to achieve and hold power.

    That’s why there is no consistency and positions change and individuals who clearly violate their promoted positions are protected as long a they support the current party line. That’s how the left can support Islamism even though it nominally violates any number of their promoted positions, but it does promote totalitarianism and the defeat of the west.

    And of course Nazism, fascism, socialism, Communism, progressivism don’t EVER work. But the left doesn’t care because it gives them power, the sole reason for their existence.

    Daniel Flynn wrote a book on American utopian societies and groups through our history (A Conservative History of the American Left). One thing to note is that they all have failed. But of course no one on the left cares to take any practical lessons from that fact.

    Unfortunately my faith in the Republican Party and the voting public is very very low so I think we, like Britain with the NHS are going to be stuck with Obamacare for at least the next several generations.

  11. I agree, Harold. We are now in the era of oligarchs and a capricious all-powerful ruling class.

  12. Late 2008 – Oh, you mean back when most Americans still had decent jobs with benefits?

    Make no mistake The progressive left finds widespread unemployment and underemployment expedient to its goals.

  13. Wait until people see the full power of the Leftist alliance. They’ll be surprised.

    I am amused at many of the comments people write these days at places like NRO. It’s like the frog realizing the water is boiling.

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