The Patriot Post® · More Insured Under Bush

Gallup reports, “In the U.S., the uninsured rate dipped to 15.6% in the first quarter of 2014, a 1.5-percentage-point decline from the fourth quarter of 2013. The uninsured rate is now at the lowest level recorded since late 2008.” All fine and dandy, right? As anticipated, there’s more to this poll. PJMedia’s Charlie Martin explains: “The low was 14.4 percent, just before the financial crisis” – in other words, under George W. Bush. Martin continues, “Since Obama was inaugurated in 2009, the net change is from 15.4 percent uninsured to 15.6 percent. So the net effect has been that by the Gallup Survey the number of uninsured has improved in the last year, but gotten worse since Obama was inaugurated, and is 1.2 percent worse than under Bush.” That equates to about 3.6 million fewer Americans today covered by insurance, even with the ObamaCare mandate. Aren’t Obamanomics and ObamaCare great?