HHS: Obamacare has saved state residents $13M on prescriptions
September 28, 2012 at 1:54 am in The Daily Republic
Seniors and people with disabilities in South Dakota have saved $13.074 million on prescription drugs since the federal Affordable Care Act was enacted, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Nothing more than pre-election propaganda.
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It is so easy to spin numbers like this. Kathleen Sebelius is going out of her way to campaign for her boss. Then when she gets caught in violation of the Hatch Act the White House “reclassifies” the event she spoke at to meet the “correct standard” and taxpayers were reimbursed.
M.D. Maag is correct. There are lies, damn lies and there are statistics.
Red
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Please, Red or M.D. give us the “real” numbers. How far off are the ones reported? I don’t know so I’m looking to you to set the record straight.
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It all depends on who you ask. That was my entire point. I make no claim to the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of the numbers cited. My point is the same as MD Maag’s. We are six weeks from a major Presidential election with a serious split in this country as to political ideology and a statement touting the success of Obamacare comes from one of Mr. Obama’s biggest cheerleaders, namely Kathleen Sebelius. My point was statistics are easy to spin one way or the other. While it is true that “numbers don’t lie”, who you ask, what you ask, which numbers you report, which one’s you don’t, all play a factor in how you spin the results.
To use an example, line up some studies on smoking and compare the statistics spin from the American Cancer Society with those from the American Tobacco Institute. Or how about compare the research from the American Medical Association with the American Dairy Association or compare opinions and numbers from the Cancer Institute versus the Food and Drug Administration. The numbers in the article above may very well be correct. How were they measured and against what? Who was asked, what were they asked? Was the population that was measured the same as the comparison group from the previous year? Do the numbers rise and fall anyway depending on time of year? What were all the variables? What was left out of the report? Higher cost in other areas? There are many unanswered questions.
All I was saying is that it behooves any serious information gatherer to consider the source. I don’t tune in to Fox News to get a critical analysis of the Republican Party and I don’t tune into MSNBC to get a feel for how the Democrats might be slipping up a little. My God, If I want to know how ObamaCare is working out after 8 short months and six weeks before the election I sure won’t be asking Kathleen Sebelius. That makes about as much sense as getting my information from some guy named Red in the comment section of the local paper.
As Always,
Red
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Red,
Write this day on your calender. I agree with you. I always say to look at who paid for the numbers because that is the way they are going to go. In other words if the AMA pays for a study the numbers will go their way, if ADA pays for the study, the numbers will go theirs. This happened a lot with global warming 10-15 years ago and to some extent today. You can’t deny that it’s happening but to what extent man has to play well…….
Having said that, can ANYONE say if the health care bill is good or bad at this point?
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