tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post4082233990150232129..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: The "Success" of Obamacare (Now Bernstein is on the Aircraft Carrier)Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-72519668183913227662015-09-29T12:25:11.115-04:002015-09-29T12:25:11.115-04:00True, but its only a 3 percentage point drop in th...True, but its only a 3 percentage point drop in the RATE of uninsured. For example, if 20% were uninsured before, now "only" 17% are uninsured. This means Obamacare has been only 15% successful (3%/20%) on it's claim that it would provide insurance to all. That's an enormous failure.Alan Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09144313758560375165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-39400900076428157102015-09-23T17:40:26.589-04:002015-09-23T17:40:26.589-04:00ALS patients get access to experimental drug — but...ALS patients get access to experimental drug — but not in U.S.<br /><br /><br />In theory, programs like the one set up by Neuraltus and Clinigen Group plc's Idis managed access unit are the proverbial win-win: Patients get early access to a drug that may (or may not) help them; and a company, as Neuraltus CEO Rich Casey explained to me earlier this year, gets reimbursed by payers and gets tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09886995566115512797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-90944319356085419102015-09-22T15:05:55.258-04:002015-09-22T15:05:55.258-04:00Excuse me if I'm not impressed with this resul...Excuse me if I'm not impressed with this result. First of all, 2014 was the first year in American history that it was against the law not to have health insurance... Also, it should come as no surprise that a program can take billions of dollars from the economy, allocate them all to the health insurance sector, and then see results like this. <br /><br />Mr. Wenzel is doing well to prevent Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-25619561925782849172015-09-22T14:53:58.820-04:002015-09-22T14:53:58.820-04:00Considering it was the first year in which the IRS...Considering it was the first year in which the IRS would fine anybody who went without health insurance, and that state governments and the federal government took billions of dollars from the economy and gave it to people for the sole purpose of purchasing health insurance, this result really is no surprise, nor should it be a cause for celebration.<br /><br />Mr. Wenzel is doing well to make Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-77481954921092056322015-09-22T12:33:46.737-04:002015-09-22T12:33:46.737-04:00It was drop of 3% points, not 3%.It was drop of 3% points, not 3%.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302897119529829972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-59078803757054739272015-09-22T11:41:16.314-04:002015-09-22T11:41:16.314-04:00So are they going to call it a failure when a rece...So are they going to call it a failure when a recession sends the total of people with health insurance back 10+ years?<br /><br />I like how the chart does not actually show the number of people with health insurance. It was definitely worse at one point. Even if it's "better" now, they wouldn't want that inconvenient truth in the history.<br /><br />Another issue is whether Brandon Foremanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535074844987678538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-2760202078678530962015-09-22T11:34:22.898-04:002015-09-22T11:34:22.898-04:00Hold on, we spent billions of dollars building exc...Hold on, we spent billions of dollars building exchanges, offering subsidies, exempting per-existing conditions from rate determination and backstopping losses at insurers participating in the exchanges to drop the uninsured rate a lousy 3%? If that isn't an indication of failure, I don't know what is. I know your average lefty assumes we live in a world of unlimited resources, but even Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-85080186444060190882015-09-22T11:14:44.523-04:002015-09-22T11:14:44.523-04:00And you can't call something successful based ...And you can't call something successful based on the number of people that sign up when they literally have a gun to their heads if they don't sign up.<br /><br />Kind of like saying that the Holocaust was a success because so many Jews participated.James Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00691491559386497208noreply@blogger.com