A radio station poll is hardly convincing research.
Why has the WH admin not published these numbers?
Why has the WH admin not published these numbers?
Smile! You’ve Got Socialized Healthcare!
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The article refers to the Gallup Poll - the same poll used and endorsed by forum right wingers when it reports something unfavorable to Obama.
According to the article, the poll consulted with 4400 people and are somehow extrapolating that to +30 million.
... Forgive me for questioning the accuracy of the results
... Forgive me for questioning the accuracy of the results
That's quite alright. After all, when Quinnipiac uses even fewer people and the result is not favorable to Obama, the result gets applauded here by deluded right wingers. Perhaps they would like to reconsider their past views on these polls henceforth especially since it is becoming increasingly clear that Republicans who now have ACA coverage like it {op cit}.
more:
The week a Republican Obamacare lie died
This has been the week to kill the Republican myth that Obamacare isn't really getting the uninsured covered, that the law is failing in its primary mission.
more:
The week a Republican Obamacare lie died
This has been the week to kill the Republican myth that Obamacare isn't really getting the uninsured covered, that the law is failing in its primary mission.
Focus on the base question here.
Do you fully believe that a poll of 4400 people can accurately extrapolate to +33 million on a factual and practical basis?
Do you fully believe that a poll of 4400 people can accurately extrapolate to +33 million on a factual and practical basis?
My sister has a friend at work. She was inquiring about medicaid and was automatically signed up. There are your numbers folks!
Oops: Sen. Rand Paul's Son Automatically Enrolled in Medicaid | CNS News
Oops: Sen. Rand Paul's Son Automatically Enrolled in Medicaid | CNS News
Don't worry about my opinion. Just concern yourself with why right wingers on this forum conveniently love these polls when their numbers don't favor Obama but suddenly hate those same sources when their numbers favor him.
Stacey Campfield, Tennessee (R) Senator - "Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory sign ups for "train rides" for Jews in the 40s"
Campfield regrets comparing Obamacare to Nazi train ride
Campfield regrets comparing Obamacare to Nazi train ride
more than three quarters of adults with new coverage said they were satisfied with it including 74% of Republicans - since forum right wingers love surveys they should readily applaud this revelation
Both your sources aren't sourced, it's just numbers pulled out of their as$es.
more than three quarters of adults with new coverage said they were satisfied with it including 74% of Republicans - since forum right wingers love surveys they should readily applaud this revelation
Here are sourced polls showing BHOcare approval.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_and_democrats_health_care_plan-1130.html
Only +280 million need to be signed up as per the legislation from a year or 2 ago... Definitely a raging success
Does that include the many thousands employed by the Fortune 500 companies whose coverage has been subsidized for decades by taxpayers?
Good Obamacare news: UnitedHealthcare jumps into market
Good Obamacare news: United Healthcare jumps into market
This comes from Kaiser Health News.
United Healthcare, the largest insurance company in the nation that largely refused to participate in the Affordable Care Act exchanges in the first year, has decided to join the system on November 15, 2014, the date on which the new open enrollment period begins. In the first year of the ACA, UHC sold individual policies on only four state exchanges, but it plans to do so on at least two dozen in the second year.
The reason for the turnabout?
The answer, the bosses said, is that the marketplaces look sustainable, even without some of the reinsurance and risk-spreading backstops put in place for carriers in the first few years. They know the prices now, they said. They know the regulations. They know how consumers are behaving.
“We felt that the markets that we’re looking at now are much more established,” said Gail Boudreaux, who runs UnitedHealth Group’s insurance division.“We’ve always felt that it was part of our strategy and plan – that this is a good, long-term market.”
This bodes well for future premium rate increases, as UHC's participation will insure greater competition among insurance companies and, thus, help to keep rates lower.
A recent paper by economists Leemore Dafny, Jonathan Gruber and Christopher Ody found that if UnitedHealthcare had sold policies through the exchanges this year in every state where it already does business, premiums would have been 5 percent lower.
This is good news for the continued success of the Affordable Care Act.
More lives saved at lower cost.
Good Obamacare news: United Healthcare jumps into market
This comes from Kaiser Health News.
United Healthcare, the largest insurance company in the nation that largely refused to participate in the Affordable Care Act exchanges in the first year, has decided to join the system on November 15, 2014, the date on which the new open enrollment period begins. In the first year of the ACA, UHC sold individual policies on only four state exchanges, but it plans to do so on at least two dozen in the second year.
The reason for the turnabout?
The answer, the bosses said, is that the marketplaces look sustainable, even without some of the reinsurance and risk-spreading backstops put in place for carriers in the first few years. They know the prices now, they said. They know the regulations. They know how consumers are behaving.
“We felt that the markets that we’re looking at now are much more established,” said Gail Boudreaux, who runs UnitedHealth Group’s insurance division.“We’ve always felt that it was part of our strategy and plan – that this is a good, long-term market.”
This bodes well for future premium rate increases, as UHC's participation will insure greater competition among insurance companies and, thus, help to keep rates lower.
A recent paper by economists Leemore Dafny, Jonathan Gruber and Christopher Ody found that if UnitedHealthcare had sold policies through the exchanges this year in every state where it already does business, premiums would have been 5 percent lower.
This is good news for the continued success of the Affordable Care Act.
More lives saved at lower cost.
Cato Institute - when I posted links to its antiwar articles forum right wingers hated it. Now all of a sudden they live it.
No surprise.
Of course, we still know that medical costs are down and that coverage has vastly expanded thanks to ACA.
No surprise.
Of course, we still know that medical costs are down and that coverage has vastly expanded thanks to ACA.