Discussion: Uninsured Rate Hits Lowest Point Ever In New Gallup Poll

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cue the “uninsured numbers” truthers

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and another “I hate Obamacare” talking point bites the dust. Don’t worry, they will come up with another one.

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I believe the correct response to this news is: ‘BENGHAZI!!!’

Of course, the GOP could react like adults…naah…just kidding.

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I blame Obama. +20 characters

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I love that picture of the President. It does fit.

How is this not good news for anyone with any common sense?

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‘People hate having health insurance! It’s worse than slavery (even the slaves weren’t forced to have health insurance). These numbers–which those libs at Gallup have fabricated anyway–prove that Obamacare is failing big time!!’

How did I do?

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You made me howl. You did good.

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Okay, this has officially become a “predict the manufactured rightwing countermeme before it happens” pool.

My money is on "Argle bargle they’re all dog whistle Obamaphone Medicaid moochers who don’t count because poverty is God’s judgment on them and they deserve to die blargh!

They’ll try to wrap that message in less overtly offensive terms, of course, but .the alienation of the Fox-toxxed haters and the .1%er sockpuppets from ordinary people is such that they are not always able to predict what will be offensive to those who are neither eaten up with manufactured fear and hate and/or whose net worth is less than four or five million.

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Unskew now, unskew tomorrow, unskew forever

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Jobs added to the economy by the private sector, thus employer funded health insurance, is what’s driving down the number of uninsured regardless of Obamacare.

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Hence the push to bring back BENGHAZI!!!

Have you noticed that in the Clinton years and now the Obama years the Republicans have wasted billions and billions of dollars chasing faux scandals and shutting down the government? And during the Obama years they have gone even further, by denying millions health insurance, unemployment insurance and keeping the economy depressed.

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So, the president is creating jobs and those jobs have helped drive down the number of uninsured? Got it. Also, you are aware that whether or not you get insurance through a private employer or through healthcare.gov, your insurance plan still has to be Obamacare compliant? All insurance is technically Obamacare.

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Hmm except there have not been that many jobs added in the private sector to account for this big a drop. Thanks Republicans.

Oh and your argument undermines the other Republican argument that Obamacare is going to cost jobs. Make up your mind

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He walked into that one with his eyes wide shut. Of course, he will now attribute that job creation to the Republicans in Congress.

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Let’s see, the unemployment rate dips to 6.3, the stock market hits record setting highs again, millions and millions of jobs have been created or brought back and now Obamacare is actually fixing our screwed up healthcare system.
And in case no one noticed, we haven’t started a new war and are finally scaling back just a little bit in the war department.

This is why you get up and vote, because the Republicans would ruin everything that has been turned around and gained since we sort of got rid of them just 6 years ago.

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Interesting correlation here: Conservative IQs lowest since discovery of fire.

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“He walked into that one with his eyes wide shut. Of course, he will now attribute that job creation to the Republicans in Congress.”

Yep, kind of like how nothing good that happened during the Clinton years was because of Clinton and everything bad was all his fault.

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It’s a good thing that Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst is taking aim at all of those newly insured people…

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I wish the graph went back a little further, so we could see more of the baseline before the economy tanked.

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