The Obama administration is bragging that we are now down to 29 million uninsured because of Obamacare.  On September 9, 2009, President Obama was citing the need for Obamacare by saying there were 30 million who couldn’t get coverage.  The highest number I ever saw was 48 million (which included illegal immigrants), so the highest number of people helped could be around 19 million, or 6% of the population.  Why would anyone write an over 2,000-page law with 20,000 pages of regulations and over 20 new taxes that took away choice for 100% of us to help a small percentage of the population? By inflating the initial number of uninsured, the Obama administration, Democrats, and the media get to pretend they helped a lot of people. I also looked up Medicaid and found that 51 million were on Medicaid in 2009 and there are over 70 million on Medicaid today, so arithmetically, any people helped just went to Medicaid. Instead of punishing 100% of us, they should...(Read Full Post)