Our three bright stars which populate the universe of ignorance. At least the study had the integrity to state in their appendix that it was hardly reliable and could not compare to objective polls because they allowed subjective answers from two thousand people to extrapolate their findings......oh for our bright stars:
1 Our findings cannot be directly compared to publicly reported exchange enrollment data because our surveys
covered the entire individual market, not just the federal and state exchanges. Furthermore, our survey was
conducted only in English, and thus its findings cannot be compared against studies that included questions in
Spanish or other languages.
Oh, it gets better
Furthermore, we have
based our findings on how respondents described their behavior, attitudes, and demographics,
and the descriptions may naturally include some subjectivity. Nevertheless, the size of our
sample – 2,874 respondents eligible for qualified health plans (QHPs) in April;
If it was not such a small sample of eight million, or if it was not an admittedly a subjective test, they create an all time low bought and paid for poll result with this
2 Our surveys measured whether individuals were covered prior to the time of application (as defined by the
answer they gave to the question: “Which of the following best describes your primary insurance coverage in
2013? For most of the year I was covered by ….,” with those we defined as being previously uninsured answering
“I did not have health insurance, I was uninsured.”) Several other publicly reported OEP enrollment surveys (e.g.,
those from the Department of Health and Human Services, Gallup, and the New York State of Health
Marketplace) measured whether individuals currently had health insurance at the time of their application. Our
approach yields a lower estimate of the previously uninsured, because it distinguishes individuals who were
uninsured for the majority of 2013 from those who only very recently became uninsured as a result of a plan
cancellation. The latter group is categorized as previously insured in our survey. See the Appendix for a more
detailed comparison with other publicly reported surveys.
Now the best part.......instead of being a gallup poll with integrity, they are a hired gun which gets paid to get the results for their clients
We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world.
Sorry you cannot go back a year in time and say a person had insurance a year ago, and say that a person HAD insurance. The small sample, the admitted subjective rather than objective standards, no questions in spanish or samples from those communities, and the best part our three bright stars want to overlook......this was a bought and paid for study......I think Boards independent studies of uninsured is an objective poll. This poll has so many footnotes trying to excuse the obvious slanted paid for results. Sorry stars.
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