I said BCBS had the majority of ACA marketplace enrollees, not the majority of people insured. I never claimed that everyone in the US was buying plans on the marketplace through the exchanges. I have already provided you a link substantiating the claims I made. Now where is your evidence that the books are cooked? I am waiting...

Well point inc is a member of blue cross blue shield. If you add the numbers from well-point inc to just blue cross then you will get a majority. Read your own damn link

Your numbers do not include the expansion of medicaid for states that chose to accept federal funding to provide care for those below the poverty line. For example Kentucky cut its uninsured rate by 50% with the expansion of medicaid.

BCBS is a consortium of insurers coming together and offering plans. The BCBS group accounts for the majority of the enrollment, so if their numbers show that customers enrolled and paid, then the numbers are fairly accurate. Also why do you not have any sources for faking the numbers? I provided you a BCBS source. Please provide me a statement from a health insurer indicating that sufficient number of people have not signed up.

I can't tell if you are being serious or sarcastic because more than 60% of the managers in the US think exactly like that.

You know anyone who is stupid enough to use cloud storage for securing data even after seeing the company hire someone who supported the patriot act, tsa, nsa, torture, etc is really not going to care about stance on gay marriage.

What the fuck does this have to do with tolerance. Why would I want someone who supports the Patriot Act, NSA, TSA, basically everything big brotherish to sit on the board of a cloud based storage company. That basically says to me that I should expect that the data will be sold to the highest bidder and I have no privacy.

Blue cross Blue shield has said that 80 to 85% of all enrollees had paid. http://www.chron.com/news/medi... My question to you is do you have any evidence other than speculation that the enrollment books are being cooked? Because even fox news cannot find any one who has hard evidence that the books are cooked and you and I both know that if someone came forward with that information they would be instantly famous.

Their definition of unemployment and the the formula for calculation is different than the US. If the US followed the same formula our unemployment would be about the same.

All the insurance companies are are private entities. All of them seem to be putting out similar numbers in terms of those enrolled. If you really believe the numbers are phony, why don't you find a publicly traded insurance company and file an SEC complaint for defrauding shareholders if you really think the numbers are bogus.

Exactly. The only way something like this will stop is if a large punitive damage is awarded or the executive who came up with this policy is tried in criminal court.

The reference is the PBS documentary on the rise of silicon valley from its roots. Also, I am not sure what population growth has anything to do with causing advancement of science. If anything it is the other way around. Population growth was enable by advancement in hygiene and medicine. Also I would say that science really did not advance during 1200 even controlled for population as near 1600.

Wealthy nobles were the "government" back then as there were no democracies and only feudal societies.

Yes, but at no time did science advance as quickly as between 1960 to the present. You do realize that NASA and the DOD was buying 90% of all transistors made in the 60's and 70's which started the whole digital revolution. You keep pretending like the government had no role in promoting any scientific progress because it suits your ideology.

Yeah, but the average person did not benefit from any of the work that Aristotle or Da Vinci were doing whereas many of the drugs today were discovered through basic science research funded by the NIH