States sue Trump for Obamacare cut
A coalition of U.S. states will file a new lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's plan to end Obamacare subsidies to health insurers that help low-income people pay out-of-pocket medical expenses, a source in the New York attorney general's Office said on Friday
So if you wiggle through all the they said this and that crap you can see that Obamacare forces 335 million people to have insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS is only insuring up to 20 million people.
How many were insured before this law was forced upon us?
That means 315,000,000 people either have to pay monthly fees to insurance companies or $1,200 each to the IRS to cover for only 5.9% of the population?
according to Wikipedia:
in 2007 (before Obamacare) the census bureau reported roughly 45 million were uninsured…37 million were of working age…27 million had at least one job…
in 2012 (during Obamacare) there were 48.0 million people in the US without health insurance…
in 2016 (during Obamacare) uninsured fell to 27 million…
Percent uninsured (all persons including non-citizens), 1999–2014
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99
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2000
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01
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02
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03
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04
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05
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06
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07
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08
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09
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10
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11
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12
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13
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14
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USA
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13.6
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13.1
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13.5
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13.9
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14.6
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14.3
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14.6
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15.2
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14.7
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14.9
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16.1
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16.3
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15.7
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15.4
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14.5
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11.7
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You can see that an influx of non-citizens increased the uninsured rate between 2003-2012.
Prior to 2012 there was no penalty or fine for being uninsured.
Around 2012 the fines and penalties for being uninsured were instituted prompting those that opted out before to opt-in.
There was a vast increase in the number of people on Medicaid or state sponsored programs (including non-citizens).
More people are insured but at what cost in dollars and/or by freedom of choice?
Most of those that are insured by state programs and Medicaid were uninsured before 2012.
The only real difference is another tax or fee and a mandated monthly payment to the masses just like when states began to require car insurance.
If they push insurance to the state to decide levels of coverage there can be competitive pricing again, as there was before, but still a lower uninsured rate because non-citizen numbers are reducing and the IRS fee/mandate of being insured still exists...
