Who: Representative Mark Takano (D-California)
When: February 2017
What: Healthcare
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From Vox: America’s uninsured rate appears to have leveled off at 13.4 percent since Obamacare’s open enrollment ended, new Gallup data showed Thursday.
The uninsured rate for the last quarter of 2013 was 17.1 percent. That means there’s been a 22 percent drop over the last five months in people who lack health insurance coverage.
The Actual Numbers (of Obamacare enrollees): 14.6 - 22.1 Million
7.08 Million Exchange-based QHPs (estimate)
+ 71,000 SHOP QHPs
+ 9.0 Million total OFF-Exchange QHPs (estimate by Rand Corp.)
+ 4.71 Million New “Strict Expansion” Medicaid enrollees
+ 1.80 Million New “Woodworker” Medicaid enrollees (estimate)
+ 3.10 Million 19-26 Year Olds on their Parent’s Plans (estimate)
- 3.70 Million Cancelled Non-Compliant Policies
=appx. 22.1 Million People (at highend) or 14.6 Million (at lowend)
This is the official House Republican Playbook on strategies to undermine Obamacare. It’s full of suggested tweets, videos and digital fliers for rank and file Republican members of Congress to use.
Although page 5 recommends using the words “Accountability, Transparency, Fairness & Competence,” you can clearly see that House Republicans are just concern trolling the President.
Nothing in this playbook addresses how to help the uninsured receive coverage.
P.S. Their citations on graphics are way too small and have mostly been discredited and/or are out of context.
Received this letter the other day from a constituent telling me about how Obamacare has helped her family. By moving into a compliant plan she will save more than $600 a year, and more importantly, she will have the peace of mind knowing that her coverage cannot be dropped if she gets sick.
Help me welcome Congressman Jim McDermott to Tumblr by following his new page: The Medicine Cabinet, for all your health reform needs…
It’s true.
The Adorable Care Act guarantees that insurance providers can’t deny you coverage for having a pre-existing condition.
So does the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).