Thursday, September 10, 2009

Obama Quietly Killed Sixteen-Million Uninsured Americans

Let me start out by saying that Obama did not actually kill anyone, the title is in the same satiric vein as Berman Post: Obama Quietly Killed Two-Million American Muslims. While giving his speech before congress (Berman Post: Obama Address Congress on Health Care Plan), the number of uninsured Americans took a significant drop. It went from 46 million to 30 million, a decline of 16 million.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/09/024480.php

"These are the 16 million people who were included when President Obama said last month that 46 million Americans lack health coverage but excluded when, in his speech to Congress, Obama lowered the number to 30 million.

It seems clear that most of these missing millions (9.6 milllion, in fact) are non-citizens, and, in most of these cases, illegal immigrants. The remainder, I assume, are people who are enrolled in Medicaid or S-CHIP but didn't tell the census taker. This is the so-called "Medicaid undercount," discussed here.

So Obama counted non-citizens as "Americans [who] don't have health coverage" in his Portsmouth, New Hampshire speech when he wanted to inflate the number of uninsured Americans so as to persuade us that there's an enormous crisis. He then discounted them when the charge that Democrats will insure illegal aliens gained traction.
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