'Nothing to see here'! New US Census survey will help Obamacare data stay buried

Well, kids, looks like we may have to wait even longer to find out just how awesome Obamacare is:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA of course. http://t.co/kE12EVhcpK

— David Freddoso (@freddoso) April 15, 2014

Via The New York Times:

The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its annual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult to measure the effects of President Obama’s health care law in the next report, due this fall, census officials said.

The changes are intended to improve the accuracy of the survey, being conducted this month in interviews with tens of thousands of households around the country. But the new questions are so different that the findings will not be comparable, the officials said.

An internal Census Bureau document said that the new questionnaire included a “total revision to health insurance questions” and, in a test last year, produced lower estimates of the uninsured. Thus, officials said, it will be difficult to say how much of any change is attributable to the Affordable Care Act and how much to the use of a new survey instrument.

For Obamacare they have changed what an 'enrollment' is, delayed/extended all deadlines, and changed census survey to hide results. Unreal.

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) April 15, 2014

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Very annoying that Census is changing way it asks question on if people are insured or not. http://t.co/Re1WwXUTAG pic.twitter.com/xAqp3ADMQ3

— Elliott Schwartz (@elliosch) April 15, 2014

Annoying … but not remotely surprising.

https://twitter.com/RichardBFord/status/456079965235064832

https://twitter.com/AmyOtto8/status/456079380599406592

ObamaCare numbers not to your liking?
Change the questions on the census to obscure the facts.
Viola!
(The press will do the rest.)

— Bob ن (@BobHicks_) April 15, 2014

Transparency, baby!

https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/456078953409937408

Census Bureau will join the rest of the administration in not reporting honest Obamacare data. Wonderful. http://t.co/h3cQsOWoz6

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) April 15, 2014

how convenient http://t.co/YlJa0ahFzj

— Brendan Buck (@BrendanBuck) April 15, 2014

https://twitter.com/jordanndavis/status/456081139258892289

https://twitter.com/ethics13/status/456085980500721665

I'm speechless. Completely inexcusable. The administration deserves all of the criticism it will get, and then some. http://t.co/nQEzctGKKW

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) April 15, 2014

https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/456084601656852480

Anything to obfuscate the facts and help Dear Leader's cause, eh? RT @freddoso HAHAHAHAHAHAHA of course. http://t.co/Pnb1FZMO0P

— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) April 15, 2014

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/456080190590828544

Obamacare is so amazing they have to mask the results! RT @seanmdav Total coincidence, you guys. Nothing to see here. http://t.co/pceGjsjpbX

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) April 15, 2014

Obama hasn't just unilaterally rewritten #Obamacare – he's rewritten the ability for anyone to see its actual results as he claims victory.

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) April 15, 2014

https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/456079123530907648

Heavens, no! We can’t have that!

https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/456079431073689601

Laugh, drink … and weep.