Saturday, November 12, 2011

4.5 million Americans have lost their employer-sponsored insurance in past 18 months, opposite what ObamaCare predicted

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11/11/11, "Since Obamacare’s Passage, Millions Have Lost Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance," Weekly Standard, Jeffrey H. Anderson

"Now, Gallup reports that from the first quarter of 2010 (when Obama signed Obamacare into law) to the third quarter of this year, 2 percent of American adults lost their employer sponsored health insurance. In other words, about 4.5 million Americans lost their employer-sponsored insurance
  • over a span of just 18 months.
This is not what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had predicted would happen. Rather, the CBO had predicted that Obamacare would increase the number of people with employer-sponsored insurance by now. It had predicted that, under Obamacare, 6 million more Americans would have employer-sponsored insurance in 2011 than in 2010 (see table 4, which shows the CBO’s projected increase of 3 million under (pre-Obamacare) current law and an additional 3 million under Obamacare). So the CBO’s rosy projections for Obamacare (and even these paint a frightening picture)
  • are already proving false."


via Drudge

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