It's a long article, and the thing I've come away with is that we cannot trust our government to give us the truth. We are dealing with a secretive administration which uses smoke and mirrors, carefully worded, deceptive talking points that are designed to fool people into incorrectly inferring something that is not true.
US Census Data: Uninsured Rate
Data were collected from a sample of 68,000 households in February, March, and April of 2014. That survey found that 42 million—13.4 percent of the population—were uninsured in 2013. Interesting, but last year’s uninsured rate tells us nothing about how much the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health insurance coverage this year. A day after the two main reports were issued, the CDC quietly placed another table on its website. The new table compares estimates from the NHIS and the CPS for the early months of 2014. It reports the NHIS result that 13.1 percent of the population lacked health insurance when they were interviewed in the January through March time period of 2014. But it also reports the CPS estimate that 13.8 percent were uninsured during the February through April interview period.
And don't forget that we have no way to compare the past thirty years of Census Bureau data on health care insurance, because the Preezy changed the way we calculate that data in 2012, just in time for the ACA release:
Manipulating ObamaCare Stats: The Census Bureau's Suspect Timing - Guy Benson
US Census Bureau's ridiculous decision to change its formula for determining health coverage rates in America. "Ridiculous" not because it's out of bounds to overhaul methodology on principle, but because after three decades, they're implementing this shift at the exact moment we need a consistent baseline off of which to measure the impact of Obamacare.
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