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    Consumer Confidential: Silly excuses for denying valid claims

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Jan 25, 2018 3 minutes

    We learned last week that roughly 3.2 million more Americans were uninsured in 2017 - hard data attesting to how Republicans' cold-hearted obsession with overturning Obamacare is playing out in the real world.

    According to the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index, the U.S. uninsured rate rose to 12.2 percent last year after plunging to a low of 10.9 percent by the end of 2016. Prior to Obamacare, the uninsured rate nationwide was as high as 18 percent.

    Yet the number of people covered is only half the

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