Counting the Uninsured a Comparison of National Surveys Ebri Form

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we're going to start with news stories and the two stories that I picked are fascinating because they look at essentially the same trend and provide a completely different perspective so let's start with the first one this is from the Washington Post September 12 2018 for the first time since 2010 America's progress on health insurance stalls and looking at the same trend the New York Times says despite attacks on Obamacare the uninsured rate held steady last year so I would look at this and go oh hey good news and I'd look at the Washington Post story just as a casual reader and go wow that doesn't sound so great so the underlying facts are actually very important here to know right I think you have two things going on number one people are showing I'll call it their bias as to how to think about what's going on the writer phone story seemed to have one sort of point of view the writer of this story has another and yet they agree on the facts the numbers are the numbers now I'm not su