The answer is no. That’s because the Census Bureau has changed the questions it asks about health care coverage and no effective comparisons can be made between then and now. But it gets better, the White House was involved in changing the questions asked.
From Bloomberg View:
By Megan McArdle
For several months now, whenever the topic of enrollment in the Affordable Care Act came up, I’ve been saying that it was too soon to tell its ultimate effects. We don’t know how many people have paid for their new insurance policies, or how many of those who bought policies were previously uninsured. For that, I said, we will have to wait for Census Bureau data, which offer the best assessment of the insurance status of the whole population. Other surveys are available, but the samples are smaller, so they’re not as good; the census is the gold standard. Unfortunately, as I invariably noted, these data won’t be available until 2015.
I stand corrected: These data won’t be available at all. Ever.
No, I’m not kidding. I wish I was. The New York Times reports that the Barack Obama administration has changed the survey so that we cannot directly compare the numbers on the uninsured over time.
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I don’t care if the Republicans win both the House and Senate, Obamacare is here to stay and everyday that passes makes that more so. It will shortly be as ingrained as Medicare. There will be tweaks here and there, but nothing that changes the basics.
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Yawn – so what? A great many people are a lot better off with the PPACA than they were before the enactment of this law and who really cares what that exact number is? The people who this law is helping don’t care what the exact number of people being helped is. I helped a relative get affordable heath care insurance under the PPACA and I’m glad that a lot of other people benefited as well, but I don’t really care exactly how many were helped.
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Well, you have a valid point. Nobody does care except the politicians. But it appears now we won’t even be able to measure the decrease in the uninsured.
Be careful with that word affordable though. There is nothing affordable about the premiums in exchange plans. The premium is either heavily subsidized by you and me or the people who have enrolled have failed to do a cost-benefit analysis between premiums, deductibles and co-payments.
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It has been said many times that “all politics is local” and, my relative has enough money to pay his premiums. Therefore to him, it’s “affordable” and he will not vote for any politician who campaigns to take away his new health insurance policy.
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Not to worry, no politician is going to do that, not one.
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Are you serious? Did you not hear the vitriolic diatribes from the conservative’s “Freedom Summit” in New Hampshire this weekend financed by Citizens United and Americans for Prosperity Foundation? Did you read Lyan Ryan’s proposed budget for 2015? I hope they keep it up because, as they preach to their racist bases, they are strongly encouraging all of the Democratic voters that state Republican legislatures are attempting to disenfranchise to come out in overwhelmingly huge numbers and vote in November.
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I meant to say “class conscious and racist” bases
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