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RUSH: A couple of health care news items here before we head back to the phones. First up, the RAND Corporation did a survey on this whole health care business. And the upshot of it is, only one-third of Obamacare exchange sign-ups were from the previously uninsured. Only one-third of exchange sign-ups were previously uninsured.<\/a> <\/p>\n

“The RAND study hasn\u00c2\u2019t yet been published, but its contents were made available to Noam Levey of the Los Angeles Times. RAND also estimates that 9 million individuals have purchased health plans directly from insurers, outside of the exchanges, but that ‘the vast majority of these people were previously insured.'” So Obama\u2019s sitting there, “Oh, yeah, we\u2019re the only country that –” We\u2019re not doing anything that this law set out to do. It\u2019s a mishmash. <\/p>\n

And from the National Center for Public Policy Research<\/a>: “3.1 Million Young Adults Have Not Received Coverage via Their Parents\u2019 Insurance.” Now, this is one of those billing deals even the Republicans say they can\u2019t oppose. There are two things the Republicans say about Obamacare, there are at least two. That we can\u2019t repeal no matter what, we can\u2019t do away with \u2019em and we\u2019re not gonna do away. One of them is coverage for preexisting conditions. We\u2019re not gonna touch that. Everybody wants that. Everybody wants everybody, no matter what their problem, to be covered, to be able to have insurance. Well, yeah, everybody wants a lot of stuff. I don\u2019t know, I guess I\u2019m too big a stickler. <\/line><\/p>\n

Preexisting condition insurance is not possible. It\u2019s not insurance. It\u2019s something else. And if you call it something else, you might change the percentages of people that support it. And that\u2019s why they call it insurance. “Well, I think everybody ought to have insurance. I don\u2019t think insurance ought to be denied to anybody when it comes to health care.” Of course, everybody thinks that. But then what if you\u2019re talking about offering people something that isn\u2019t insurance but is, in strict definitional terms, welfare? Well, then what kind of support does it get? <\/p>\n

See, that\u2019s the kind of stuff that matters to me. It makes me, you know, a stick in the mud. Let\u2019s say you decide for some reason you have enough money, you don\u2019t have to get a mortgage. So you don\u2019t have to have homeowners insurance. So you don\u2019t. You plop down whatever your house costs, and then one day you drive home and you see smoke coming from your neighborhood, and you get closer and closer and you see it\u2019s your house on fire. “Oh, my God, oh, no.” Then you realize, you know what, I don\u2019t have any insurance. <\/p>\n

So you call the insurance company and say, “Hey, my house is on fire. About 20%\u2019s destroyed. I want homeowners insurance.” And they would tell you to go pound sand. You gotta buy the insurance before the fire. Now, if you want the insurance company to pay you or to pay for the repairs that the fire caused, you\u2019re not buying insurance at that point; you\u2019re buying repairs. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Now, the equivalent you decide, because you\u2019re young and healthy, take the risk or whatever, that you\u2019re just not gonna get catastrophic health insurance. You\u2019ve got enough money to pay as you go when you go to the doctor, this or that. Then you do go to the doctor and they come out and say, “You know what? You\u2019ve got X terminal disease or X catastrophic disease.” You call the health insurance, “I just was diagnosed with blah, blah. I want insurance.” “Sorry. You can\u2019t get insurance for something that — you should have bought insurance before this happened.” <\/p>\n

“Well, I want it now.” <\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t sell that. That\u2019s not insurance.” <\/p>\n

But we are a compassionate country, so we\u2019re calling that preexisting condition insurance, but there really is no such thing. It isn\u2019t insurance. It\u2019s something else. And if you termed it something else, would it have the universal support that it\u2019s gotten? Side point. <\/p>\n

The second thing that the Republicans said they would never tamper with, the American people want it, is your children being covered by your policy until they are 26. That\u2019s not gonna change no matter if we got our arms around Obamacare, we\u2019re able to get rid of the whole thing, we\u2019re not getting rid of that. Well, the National Center for Public Policy Research has done some research. I mean, that\u2019s what they do. And they have found that the number of young people who can now stay on their parents\u2019 insurance plan until 26 — the slacker mandate we call this. Spoiled kids who don\u2019t want to pay their own way until they\u2019re 27 stay on their parents\u2019 insurance. Well, 3.1 million young adults have not received this coverage via their parents\u2019 insurance. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Here\u2019s the pull quote. And look, this gets into the weeds here. It\u2019s a little deep, of analyzing — the whole story does. But here\u2019s the upshot of this story. “What HHS did amounts to little more than a ‘back of the envelope\u2019 calculation. To really get at how many young adults are newly covered under their parents\u2019 policies would require surveys asking very detailed questions about the source of insurance. It would probably also require more sophisticated statistical analysis that could estimate the impact of the slacker mandate while controlling for other factors such as the economy and Medicaid enrollment. As it stands, all we have is an estimate of the number of young adults who gained coverage via their parents that is unreliable — far too unreliable for major newspapers to be repeating it.”<\/p>\n

And the Health and Human Services has not updated their figures in nearly two years, and the reason is the program is losing its effectiveness and the numbers are declining. There aren\u2019t that many kids staying on their parents\u2019 policies. It\u2019s something that\u2019s not being utilized. There\u2019s no way of determining it. There just isn\u2019t enough statistical analysis and data for people to figure out how widespread the benefit is, and the best that they\u2019ve been able to come up with here is, despite what Obama and the LA Times and the media is saying, there are 3.1 million young adults who have not received coverage via their parents\u2019 insurance. David Hogberg wrote the stor<\/a>y. He\u2019s a PhD. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s another lie about Obamacare. The point of this little research project is to say that this magic of all these kids being covered, they\u2019re not, is the bottom line. It\u2019s a feel-good talking point. (impersonating Obama) “And you parents, your kids are gonna be able to stay covered on your policy \u2019til they\u2019re 26.” But it\u2019s not happening, as best anybody can tell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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