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posted by LaminatorX on Friday October 31 2014, @07:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the take-your-medicine dept.

We know that about 10 million more people have insurance coverage this year as a result of the Affordable Care Act but until now it has been difficult to say much about who was getting that Obamacare coverage — where they live, their age, their income and other such details. Now Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz report in the NYT that a new data set is providing a clearer picture of which people gained health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The data is the output of a statistical model based on a large survey of adults and shows that the law has done something rather unusual in the American economy this century: It has pushed back against inequality, essentially redistributing income — in the form of health insurance or insurance subsidies — to many of the groups that have fared poorly over the last few decades. The biggest winners from the law include people between the ages of 18 and 34; blacks; Hispanics; and people who live in rural areas. The areas with the largest increases in the health insurance rate, for example, include rural Arkansas and Nevada; southern Texas; large swaths of New Mexico, Kentucky and West Virginia; and much of inland California and Oregon.

Despite many Republican voters’ disdain for the Affordable Care Act, parts of the country that lean the most heavily Republican (according to 2012 presidential election results) showed significantly more insurance gains than places where voters lean strongly Democratic. That partly reflects underlying rates of insurance. In liberal places, like Massachusetts and Hawaii, previous state policies had made insurance coverage much more widespread, leaving less room for improvement. But the correlation also reflects trends in wealth and poverty. Many of the poorest and most rural states in the country tend to favor Republican politicians.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Saturday November 01 2014, @05:35AM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Saturday November 01 2014, @05:35AM (#112124)

    The main question was this: when I become unemployed, and run out of money, should I commit suicide?

    Generally, the high hanging fruit takes lots of manyears to pick... A new compiler, some specific signal processing library, replacement for some component that is in use today, say, X windows - you are a dev, yes? You know these take many years to make...
    Then, there are some other things around, but everyone can't be an android dev or java consultant...

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    old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 01 2014, @11:11AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday November 01 2014, @11:11AM (#112163) Homepage Journal

    You seem hung up on suicide. Seek help. What you should do is the same thing the rest of the world does when they aren't fit for one reason or another to be a business owner, get a job.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Saturday November 01 2014, @10:50PM

      by zugedneb (4556) on Saturday November 01 2014, @10:50PM (#112274)

      yes, yes, but if I can't get a job, and funds have run out?

      why not answer? what should I do then?
      are u willing to contribute "walfare" and medication for me until my situation improves?

      face it, otherwise, i have to become criminal, or perish.

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      old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 02 2014, @12:03AM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday November 02 2014, @12:03AM (#112286) Homepage Journal

        Nope. And I'd never interfere with your right to choose to end your life, if that's what you really feel is necessary either. Having gone through plenty of that particular sort of mental badness myself, I know exactly where someone in that situation is coming from. Do you?

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Sunday November 02 2014, @04:36AM

          by zugedneb (4556) on Sunday November 02 2014, @04:36AM (#112353)

          My experience is not relevant here, on the other hand your words are:
          "Mostly because nothing's free. Everything you get WILL be paid for. There are a lot of people over here who just are not interested in paying for what others get."
          ---
          "Nah, I don't need a strawman, thanks. I'm perfectly content with the phrase "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give him someone else's fish and he'll vote for you." I don't want my metaphorical or actual fish, big or small, going to anyone else."

          If someone does not have, than that person have reached the end of the line, and these options exist:
          1: someone contributes with some fish, maybe, so that the other can get back on the feet...
          2: prostitution, criminality
          3: emigration
          4: death

          So, do you or do you not want to contribute with some fish?

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          old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 02 2014, @01:02PM

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday November 02 2014, @01:02PM (#112393) Homepage Journal

            Not at gunpoint, no, and that's exactly what taxes are.

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            My rights don't end where your fear begins.
            • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Sunday November 02 2014, @08:05PM

              by zugedneb (4556) on Sunday November 02 2014, @08:05PM (#112466)

              "Not at gunpoint, no, and that's exactly what taxes are."
              My intention is not to troll you, but here is the point:
              - the meek, nice, sensitive or those incapable of violence and killing (there is more to it) will die
              - those who are insensitive or are to afraid of death will become prostitutes
              - the rest are going to take to arms...

              And at some point, we realize, that evolution did not only eliminate the incompetent - as certain groups wish to put it.
              Evolution also eliminates the kind of people that you would rather more like to look in the eyes, then yourself.
              And at the end, you will end up at gunpoint anyway.

              As I said, I do not intend to troll, but you strike me as someone who is not stupid, but rather hard for the wrong reasons and about the wrong things.

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              old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
              • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 03 2014, @12:33AM

                by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday November 03 2014, @12:33AM (#112511) Homepage Journal

                That's their call. I will not pay someone to not rob me. They're welcome to try though. The difference between them and me is I am on the side of liberty while they are on the side of give me your shit.

                Personally, I'm with Patrick Henry; give me liberty or give me death. I flatly refuse to live as anything but a free man. You're right that people are going to start dying sooner or later but it won't be the outcome you're looking for. There will be no Bolshevik revolution in the US. Look to the history of this nation if you want to see where we'll come down on overly burdensome taxation. Enough of us haven't changed that the result will be identical to that of two hundred years and change ago.

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                My rights don't end where your fear begins.