Obama vs. Obama; 47 Million Uninsured vs. 30 Million: Are There More Than 15 Legitimately Uninsured People In This Country?

You may not have noticed, and the mainstream media may not have told you, but President Obama REDUCED the number of uninsured (health insurance) in this country from 47 million to "more than 30 million".


This is yet another case of Obama vs. Obama, with an interesting subtext. I have previously discussed that President Obama, as a candidate, ELOQUENTLY and PASSIONATELY distinguished his health care "plan" from that of Hillary Clinton by saying that he would never FORCE anyone to buy health insurance. He has since decided Hillary was right (or was only posturing--lying--in the first place). Obama now includes in his "plan" a requirement that everyone purchase health insurance, or be "fined" up to $3800.00. See AP story referenced in a previous article. Obama has also taken on Obaam on the subject of the deficit, where Obama (and Geitner) said that we could not sustain deficits like this without dooming any recovery (correct). Then the Obama Administration changed their accumulated deficit over the next 10 years to 9 TRILLION from about 7 trillion. Right. They acted like this was not important, even though Obama himself had previously said it spelled DOOM to sustain deficits like that. Now Obama is talking about "paying for" health care as if 9 TRILLION in accumulated deficits is unimportant, since he is accepting the continuation of those deficits when he says that he will make sure (lol) his health care "plan" is "deficit neutral" (that is, does not ADD to the deficit, but that means acceping the present deficits as okay while any "savings" or new taxes are applied to NEW programs, leaving the projected 9 trillion dollar deficits untouched).


This new "Obama vs. Obama" moment is probably explained by he criticism over coverage of illegal immigrants. This seems to indicate that Obama--when he talked about the 47 million uninsured previously--was INCLUDING illegal immigrants (without any qualms). However, after criticism, and even though Democrats in the House voted down an amendment to exclude illegal immigrants from coverage, Obama now uses that 30 million uninsured figure. That seems to indicate that Obama believes that there are 17 million illegal immigrants in this country who could probably use health insurance.


Now you may think that Obama has abandoned the idea of covering illegal immigrants, even though he seemingly had no problem with that previously. Uh-huh. And I have this inventory of bridges in Brooklyn from which I can sell you a bridge.


See my previous articles on this subject over the past two days. Many of the very people who are now accusing OPPONENTS of health care "reform" of lying, are the very people who will ADVOCATE the position that health care "reform" has to include illegal immigrants--AFTER THE BILL IS PASSED. Further, many of these people are the very same people who will go to Federal Court to say that the Federally courts must FORCE illegal immigrants to be included in any health care "reform".


Thus, to me, this reduction of the uninsured is just another layer of deception, when Obama fully intends that the final "decision" on inclusion of illegal immigrants be made by Federal bureaucrats and/or the Federal courts.


Obviously, that 47 million included MILLIONS of illegal immigrants. That did not stop the mainstream media, and Democratic candidates, from using that figure IN THE ELECTION. Hypocrisy and dishonesty, anyone? Many of those people don't want to be insured, even if they could afford it by giving up some things--see the previous article today on Sylvia. Many could be covered by Medicaid. Many are only temporarily uninsured. Many have made the rational decision to be self-insured.


There may be 15 people in the country who really want to be insured, to the point of giving up--say--cell phones or cable TV. For those 15 people President Obama wants to have the Federal government mess up health care. Okay. I a exaggerating. But not that much. I haven't even mentioned the CHILD insurance available under CHIP for "little or nothing" (quoting Texas commercials being run the past several weeks/months). There really is no reason for very many people to be uninsured, except as a matter of choice.


Yes, some people may have a problem with pre-existing conditions. A simple amendment to HIPA (Health Insurance Portability Act) could address that without some grand, stupid "overhaul". Notice that including pre-existing conditions will INCREASE the health insurance for everyone except those with expensive pre-existing conditions. I actually favor addressing this problem, but on a STATE level (where mistakes can be more easily corrected, and people can see the exact cost).


See how all of the above really follows from Obama's implied attack on Obama for misleading us about the true number of uninsured? Interesting, isn't it?