The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its annual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult to measure the effects of President Obama's health care law in the next report, due this fall, census officials said.
The changes are intended to improve the accuracy of the survey, being conducted this month in interviews with tens of thousands of households around the country. But the new questions are so different that the findings will not be comparable, the officials said.
An internal Census Bureau document said that the new questionnaire included a "total revision to health insurance questions" and, in a test last year, produced lower estimates of the uninsured. Thus, officials said, it will be difficult to say how much of any change is attributable to the Affordable Care Act and how much to the use of a new survey instrument.
Iris I. Burnell, a tax preparer in Washington, says she has been talking to clients about the tax implications of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.Tax Preparers' New Role: Health-Coverage AdvisersAPRIL 14, 2014
"We are expecting much lower numbers just because of the questions and how they are asked," said Brett J. O'Hara, chief of the health statistics branch at the Census Bureau.
With the new questions, "it is likely that the Census Bureau will decide that there is a break in series for the health insurance estimates," says another agency document describing the changes. This "break in trend" will complicate efforts to trace the impact of the Affordable Care Act, it said.
#2
Lies from top to bottom, just like the old Soviet bureaucracy. When it all goes Tango-Uniform so many will be perplexed and shocked, not understanding 'the truth will set you free', but then again, they really don't want the truth. They want their fantasies. Hard to have a workable government and society predicated so deeply upon lies.
#3
The real conundrum is the IRS. Fewer tax-payers each year. Fewer [working Americans] now than during the evil Bushitler presidency. Highest number of IRS agents and reviewers in the history of the agency, but still not able to get the job done. Constantly bitching and moaning about resources and manpower. What am I missing ?
#4
...expanded mission statement - shut down all 'free speech, assemblies and associations' that are a threat to the Permanent Party? Not to mention actually partisan canvasing of citizens during the election cycle.
[WAPO] President Obama's choice of Sylvia Burwell to replace Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of Health and Human Services thrusts Obamacare right back into the national spotlight -- and with it Obama's false promise that "if you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan." Appears Ms. Burwell and OMB presidential speech 'Fact Checkers' missed a whopper, or did they ?
#2
Entirely correct. She was not the 'head' when the prevarication was committed, some multiple dozens of times. Let the record be so corrected. Not that it matters much, but potentially an 'Accessory After the Fact.'
~ Whoever, knowing that an offense has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact; one who knowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon in order to hinder the felon's apprehension, trial, or punishment. U.S.C. 18
#3
And Seblius is now residing in her 2.4 million dollar estate. Oh, the sufferings of the public servant.
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#4
She was not the 'head' when the prevarication was committed, some multiple dozens of times.
No, I said she was not the head of OMB when Obama made the first prevarication. She was head of the OMB as the prevarications continued.
Kindly show me where I said anything that could be interpreted as "She was not the 'head' when the prevarication was committed, some multiple dozens of times."
She'll likely be asked about it. However, I don't think anything remotely resembling U.S.C 18 will be applied.
#5
My bad on the agency and title if incorrect. Otherwise, an argument over agreement. Strange very strange, possibly the meds.
Clarification:
She was bean counter who would have had to have had knowledge of the ACA deception, unless of course she wasn't worth her salt. Which makes her another Sebelius useful idiot.
The nomination of Ms. Burwell was expected. Ms. Burwell, 48, spent much of the ast year mired in Washingtons fiscal fights, including the standoff that led to a 15-day government shutdown last fall. She also handled health policy as part of her job as Mr. Obamas budget chief.
#6
Well, yes. Essentially she would have been involved in the ACA from both the nuts-and-bolts and the OMB standpoints. More like a party hack along the lines of Wasserman-Schultz or Lerner than a useful idiot for Sebelius.
Interesting article, BTW:
When the government was forced to shut down last October, and even as her own team was barred from reporting to work, Sylvia was a rock, a steady hand on the wheel who helped navigate the country through a very challenging time, Mr. Obama said.
However, it appears the questioning will be confined to the ACA.
[Townhall} New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings' staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information.
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa, along with five Subcommittee Chairmen are demanding Cummings provide an explanation for the staff inquiries to the IRS about True the Vote and for his denial that his staff ever contacted the IRS about the group. ......or contacted the IRS regarding any other conservative group. I doubt True The Vote was their only target.
"Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization True the Vote that may have led to additional agency scrutiny, communication records between your staff and IRS officials -- which you did not disclose to Majority Members or staff -- indicates otherwise," the letter to Cummings states. "As the Committee is scheduled to consider a resolution holding Ms. Lerner, a participant in responding to your communications that you failed to disclose, in contempt of Congress, you have an obligation to fully explain your staff's undisclosed contacts with the IRS."
The first contact between the IRS and Cummings' staffers about True the Vote happened in August 2012. In January 2013, staff asked for more information from the IRS about the group. Former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner went out of her way to try and get information to Cummings' office.The information Cummings received was not shared with Majority Members on the Committee. No doubt shared with DoJ and the White House.
On January 28, three days after staffers requested more information, Lerner wrote an email to her deputy Holly Paz, who has since been put on administrative leave, asking, "Did we find anything?" Paz responded immediately by saying information had not been found yet, to which Lerner replied, "Thanks, check tomorrow please." This entire affair is long overdue for assignment of a Special Prosecutor and full LE investigation.
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