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but hey, we've all come to understand -- even the rightwing liars themselves -- that their lies and lying are an intregal and necessary part of their "the ends justify the means" effort to retain their positions of paragons of morality and champions of personal responsibility and accountibility.
It is really their dumbed down and equally dishonest minions that don't seem to realize that the ACA, much like the efforts of the racist Ryan of late, are really more about distracting the masses away from the obscenities of their "making" monied masters, e.g. socioeconomic inequalities, and putting the focus on the "taking" poor. It's been a winning formula for them for a long time, so there's no reason for them not to think that they can't once again get many of their "taking" minions to vote against their self-interests, because as we know they aren't really "takers" like those lazy inner city types. http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/man_up_poors_paul_ryans_nobodys_fool/
It is really their dumbed down and equally dishonest minions that don't seem to realize that the ACA, much like the efforts of the racist Ryan of late, are really more about distracting the masses away from the obscenities of their "making" monied masters, e.g. socioeconomic inequalities, and putting the focus on the "taking" poor. It's been a winning formula for them for a long time, so there's no reason for them not to think that they can't once again get many of their "taking" minions to vote against their self-interests, because as we know they aren't really "takers" like those lazy inner city types. http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/man_up_poors_paul_ryans_nobodys_fool/
Well, that one doesn't even require a professional fact-checker, since a very big chunk of those "6 million" (it's actually closer to 5 million) people who lost those policies were moved automatically into other policies with the same companies. But let's let the professional do his thing anyway, since that's what he's paid for. The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, with a shout-out to Kossack Brainwrap:
Taking the lowest-range estimates, we still end up with nearly 9 million people added to the insurance rolls, more than enough to swamp Boehner’s 6 million figure, which as we noted is a pretty useless number to begin with.
Charles Gaba, a blogger who has tracked the state-by-state numbers at ACAsignups.net, including known off-exchange enrollments, meanwhile calculates the actual current figure though mid-March at nearly 14 million. Even if you take a conservative estimate for paid plans and reduce the number of young Americans added to plans, you end up with about 13 million. That makes Boehner’s “net loss” claim seem especially absurd. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/17/1285406/-Boehner-fact-check-on-Obamacare-Yeah-he-lied
Taking the lowest-range estimates, we still end up with nearly 9 million people added to the insurance rolls, more than enough to swamp Boehner’s 6 million figure, which as we noted is a pretty useless number to begin with.
- 3.4 million — healthcare.gov sign-ups, assuming 80 percent paid, though February
- 2.4 million — lowest estimate for new Medicaid enrollment through January
- 2.2 million — young adults added to parents’ plans (2010 average to first two quarters of 2013)
- 500,000 — off-exchange enrollments
Charles Gaba, a blogger who has tracked the state-by-state numbers at ACAsignups.net, including known off-exchange enrollments, meanwhile calculates the actual current figure though mid-March at nearly 14 million. Even if you take a conservative estimate for paid plans and reduce the number of young Americans added to plans, you end up with about 13 million. That makes Boehner’s “net loss” claim seem especially absurd. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/17/1285406/-Boehner-fact-check-on-Obamacare-Yeah-he-lied
