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Title: Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted
Post by: Coach is Back! on September 06, 2011, 10:57:50 AM

(CNSNews.com) - The percentage of American adults who lack health insurance coverage has not only increased during the presidency of Barack Obama, but it has continued to increase since Obama signed his signature piece of legislation last year mandating that by 2014 every American carry health insurance, according to a Gallup survey released today.

In 2008, when George W. Bush was president, according to Gallup, 14.9 percent of adult residents of the United States lacked health insurance coverage. That increased to 16.2 percent in 2009, the year that Obama was inaugurated, and to 16.4 percent in 2010, the year that Obama signed his law requiring that all Americans have health insurance.

In the first half of this year, according to data released by Gallup today, the percentage of adults in the United States lacking health insurance ticked up to 16.8 percent.

That conclusion is based on Gallup's interviews with 177,237 American adults from January through June of this year. The interviews were part of the ongoing Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey.

Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010. It mandates that all Americans must purchase government-approved health insurance plans by 2014. Under the legislation, families earning less than 400 percent of the poverty level will receive a federal subsidy to buy insurance.

The constitutionality of the mandate is being challenged in federal court by more than half of the states.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-uninsured-have-increased-under-ob

Title: Re: Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted
Post by: tbombz on September 06, 2011, 11:07:05 AM

first off, before i explain to you why that isnt a fair assessment of the bills ability to increase coverage i need you to answer this question: is increasing healthcare coverage to americans a goal the government should work on, or not?

 :)


now understand this, the amount of people with healthcare insurance is directly related ot the number of people employed. the decrease in insured individuals is due to the recession. this is basic economics.




now if you answered yes to the question i posed, and you think the government should work on increasing healthcare coverage, here are some of the features of obamas healthcare reform... you tell me, do these increase or decrease coverage


Businesses with fewer than 50 employees will get tax credits covering 35 percent of their health care premiums, increasing to 50 percent by 2014.



Young adults will be able stay on their parents' insurance until their 26th birthday.


Seniors will get a $250 rebate to help fill the "doughnut hole" in Medicare prescription drug coverage, which falls between the $2,700 initial limit and when catastrophic coverage kicks in at $6,154.


 Insurers will be barred from imposing exclusions on children with pre-existing conditions. Pools will cover those with pre-existing health conditions until health care coverage exchanges are operational.



those are just a few  :)