UNREAL: White House-Controlled Census To Change Wording of Questions On Health Care, Making It Impossible To Assess Effects of Obamacare

by Duane Lester | April 16, 2014 7:27 pm

And why wouldn’t they do this?[1] : Who’s going to question them? : The press?

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In 2009, in the earliest weeks of President Barack Obama‘s administration, the White House made the controversial decision to take the unprecedented step of moving the Census Bureau from control of the commerce secretary over to the White House ahead of the decennial 2010 census.

Conservatives sounded alarm bells. “It takes something that is supposedly apolitical like the census, and gives it to a guy who is infamously political,” said Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) of then White House Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel.: […]

The White House: dismissed the concerns[3]: of conservatives which were, indeed, unfounded insofar as they related to the 2010 census. But the fears of some that the Census Bureau could be corrupted by the imperatives of the political operatives in the White House was today proven accurate.

According to a report in: The New York Times[4], the Census Bureau has been directed to change the wording of its questions relating to health care coverage so that they can no longer be checked against the past three decades of data. According to the nonpartisan analysts and census officials: The Times: spoke with, this change will make it nearly impossible to accurately assess the effects of the Affordable Care Act has had on the number of Americans who have health insurance.

The changes will, however, likely have the effect of showing a reduction in the number of uninsured. This will not be the result of the effects of the law. Rather, according to the Census Bureau’s chief of the health statistics branch, the drop in uninsured is only going to be due to “the questions and how they are asked.”

Typical.

When the facts don’ t match the agenda, change the facts.

That’s how they did it in Mother Russia.

Hat Tip: : Weasel Zippers[5]

See also: : Emails Tie Lois Lerner to Justice Department in IRS Abuse of Power Scandal