Pajamas Media » Checking the ObamaCare Math: "The health care debate has largely been a battle of numbers, and the most widely cited one — 46 million uninsured — isn’t even accurate.
According to the census, the real number of uninsured Americans is 28 million: 46 million, minus nine million non-citizens, minus nine million people on Medicaid who were falsely tallied as uninsured.
But that hasn’t kept the Congressional Budget Office from using a figure of 50 million uninsured. By all accounts, the CBO is getting its number from the census while failing to adjust for the census’ admitted Medicaid undercount (while apparently adding four million because of the recession). By inflating the number of uninsured by about 20 percent, the CBO is significantly overstating the magnitude of the problem and is aiding the Democrats in their push to dramatically increase government’s power and control over our health care system.
But these are by no means the only interesting numbers in the health care debate. Here are some others:"
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