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12-11-2016, 12:37 PM
New Evidence: Obamacare Is Not Saving Lives
Robert Book (http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/people/robertbook/)
Proponents of the health reform law that became known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) often argued that thousands of Americans were dying every year because of a lack of health insurance, and passing the proposed law would save thousands of lives every year. Opponents disputed those claims, and suggested that the law would not save lives, and would instead make people worse off and might even cost lives.
Now, new data shows that a U.S. life expectancy dropped in 2015 (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db267.htm) a year after the major provisions of the ACA went into effect and for the first time since 1993, when the drop was attributed to the AIDS epidemic, a flu outbreak, and an spike in homicide rates (http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/08/504667607/life-expectancy-in-u-s-drops-for-first-time-in-decades-report-finds). While the relationship between health insurance and mortality might still be debated and it is certainly too early to say that the ACA is as bad as the AIDS epidemic one thing is clear: There is no evidence that the ACA is, on net, saving lives.
In 2009, during the run-up to the passage of a health care reform bill, Rep. Bill Pascrell (N-NJ) claimed on the House Floor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZH0O1LJdcE) that as many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they dont have health insurance. A few months later, prior to the Senate vote on what became the Affordable Care Act (ACA), then-Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) upped the ante, claiming that (https://democrats.senate.gov/2009/12/21/reid-health-reform-is-about-people-not-politics), 45,000 times this year nearly 900 times every week, more than 120 times a day, on average every 10 minutes, without end an American died as a direct result of not having health insurance.
Both of these claims were based on academic or think-tank studies, which had previously been called into question on methodological grounds by Richard Kronick, then an academic and former Clinton-administration official, who was serving in the Obama administration as a deputy assistant secretary of HHS at the time the ACA was passed. Kronick re-analyzed existing data and found that (http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160225/NEWS/160229934)when controlling for initial health status, smoking status, and body mass index, there was no difference in mortality (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739025/pdf/hesr0044-1211.pdf) between those with employer-sponsored health insurance and those who were uninsured. This conclusion is buttressed by the finding, that expanding Medicaid to uninsured, low-income, non-elderly adults does not improve basic clinical measures of health status (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1212321).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/12/11/new-evidence-obamacare-is-not-saving-lives/#5431c1622511
this miracle cure for death isn't working out so well.....it doesn't work for those who need it.
69 bucks a month for insurance isn't insurance. It is a drain on the pocket book.
Let's do the math.....1 million people are paying $69/mo. for premiums. The actual cost s somewhere around 400-500/mo. That means the taxpayer is paying $431 for each policy the government sells (forces) totally a cost of $431,000,000. IF there are more than 30,000,000 people getting this cheap plan, the taxpayer is on the grab for several billion dollars a year.........but hey...........what's a bunch of dollars between government officials.......
Robert Book (http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/people/robertbook/)
Proponents of the health reform law that became known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) often argued that thousands of Americans were dying every year because of a lack of health insurance, and passing the proposed law would save thousands of lives every year. Opponents disputed those claims, and suggested that the law would not save lives, and would instead make people worse off and might even cost lives.
Now, new data shows that a U.S. life expectancy dropped in 2015 (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db267.htm) a year after the major provisions of the ACA went into effect and for the first time since 1993, when the drop was attributed to the AIDS epidemic, a flu outbreak, and an spike in homicide rates (http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/08/504667607/life-expectancy-in-u-s-drops-for-first-time-in-decades-report-finds). While the relationship between health insurance and mortality might still be debated and it is certainly too early to say that the ACA is as bad as the AIDS epidemic one thing is clear: There is no evidence that the ACA is, on net, saving lives.
In 2009, during the run-up to the passage of a health care reform bill, Rep. Bill Pascrell (N-NJ) claimed on the House Floor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZH0O1LJdcE) that as many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they dont have health insurance. A few months later, prior to the Senate vote on what became the Affordable Care Act (ACA), then-Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) upped the ante, claiming that (https://democrats.senate.gov/2009/12/21/reid-health-reform-is-about-people-not-politics), 45,000 times this year nearly 900 times every week, more than 120 times a day, on average every 10 minutes, without end an American died as a direct result of not having health insurance.
Both of these claims were based on academic or think-tank studies, which had previously been called into question on methodological grounds by Richard Kronick, then an academic and former Clinton-administration official, who was serving in the Obama administration as a deputy assistant secretary of HHS at the time the ACA was passed. Kronick re-analyzed existing data and found that (http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160225/NEWS/160229934)when controlling for initial health status, smoking status, and body mass index, there was no difference in mortality (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739025/pdf/hesr0044-1211.pdf) between those with employer-sponsored health insurance and those who were uninsured. This conclusion is buttressed by the finding, that expanding Medicaid to uninsured, low-income, non-elderly adults does not improve basic clinical measures of health status (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1212321).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/12/11/new-evidence-obamacare-is-not-saving-lives/#5431c1622511
this miracle cure for death isn't working out so well.....it doesn't work for those who need it.
69 bucks a month for insurance isn't insurance. It is a drain on the pocket book.
Let's do the math.....1 million people are paying $69/mo. for premiums. The actual cost s somewhere around 400-500/mo. That means the taxpayer is paying $431 for each policy the government sells (forces) totally a cost of $431,000,000. IF there are more than 30,000,000 people getting this cheap plan, the taxpayer is on the grab for several billion dollars a year.........but hey...........what's a bunch of dollars between government officials.......