Author Topic: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)  (Read 58921 times)

Keysbear

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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
« Reply #15 on: April 16, 2014, 04:44:11 pm »
Ahhh...don't like the numbers?  Just change the way they're counted.

http://news.yahoo.com/census-bureau-picked-bad-time-change-counts-uninsured-173556286.html

This is the kind of announcement every Obamacare enrollment truther has been waiting for — the Census Bureau is changing the questions it asks about health insurance, to the point that the data won't be comparable to past years, according to the New York Times. An Obama administration official told Vox's Sarah Kliff that this will affect census data starting with the 2013 data released this fall, meaning we'll have one year of pre-Obamacare data with the new questions. Still, the Census Bureau said “it is coincidental and unfortunate timing” that the new questions are lining up so closely to the start of the health care law.

Census officials said it will be difficult to determine how much of the change is attributable to Obamacare. That change will likely be a lower number of uninsured. “We are expecting much lower numbers just because of the questions and how they are asked,” Brett J. O’Hara, chief of the health statistics branch at the Census Bureau, told the Times.