Senate Democrat website: With no action, uninsured to reach 101 million by 2019

posted at 9:49 pm on September 15, 2009 by Patrick Ishmael

Methinks the Senators’ predictive model is wrong.

Today:

Now, with my computer’s clock dated September 15, 2019:

The widget is designed to follow a formula dictated by the date of the user’s computer, producing an ever-”accurate” — or as they term it, “approximate” — number of “uninsured.” And as you can tell, the Senate is apparently predicting that in ten years, an additional 50+ million people will be without insurance. That seems highly unlikely.

I’ll toss “2039″ on here for good measure:

The numbers get more extravagant from here.

The scientific method for determining this sort of, uh, linear growth? Via The Center for American Progress.

The ticker uses the Census data through the end of 2008 and then begins counting from January 1, 2009 at a rate of 14,000 additional uninsured Americans each day. That rate of increase is derived from a Center for American Progress study released in February 2009.

That’s five million additional people each year without health insurance, into infinity. Anybody buying that? Note, too, that the Senate is using the “47,000,000 million uninsured” talking point as its baseline, a number that the President himself has already walked back.

So in short, the Democrats in the Senate are supplementing a bogus uninsured number with a series of suspect numbers of newly uninsured to force, as the President would say, “bold and swift action” on healthcare… the facts notwithstanding.

Actually, it sounds like business as usual. Nothing to see here.

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