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Revamp of annual census questions about health insurance coverage… — 7 Comments

  1. Well, their info was always going to be like the old Soviet farm bureau reports anyway, right?

  2. During the last census, I only answered the questions I thought should be. I also printed out a copy of our Constitution and returned it with the census form.

  3. Funny, Obama moved responsibility for the Census from the Commerce Dept. to the White House almost immediately after taking office in 2009.

    I’m sure that the updated question benefiting Obama is a total coincidence.

  4. Beat me to it, Lizzy. That shift got almost no attention in 2009 but it sure got mine.

  5. From Vox (sorry for linking to Ezra Klein’s new product!):

    It might not be time to freak out quite yet: What’s being missed here is that the Obama administration will use the new survey questions to collect data for 2013, the year prior to Obamacare’s health insurance expansion, a senior administration official says.

    The Census Bureau reports the health insurance rate with a one-year delay; in September 2013, for example, the agency reported the percent of Americans without coverage in 2012. It will most likely report the uninsured rate for 2013 sometime this coming fall.

    In other words: The survey will make it difficult to compare the uninsured rate for 2012, the last year for the old questions, and 2013, the first year for the new questions. But making the change now means that 2013 and 2014 — the year before and after Obamacare’s big programs started — are using the same question set.

  6. So how much did Klein make out via his support of Demoncrats and their corruption? A new child sex slave? Some prostitutes? Indentured slave labor? Low cost immigrants? A healthcare benefit check?

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