"The ACA Cut The Uninsured Rate To Single Digits Last Year"

[still_one]

"WASHINGTON — More than 7 million previously uninsured Americans gained health coverage in 2015, the second full year of the Obamacare coverage expansion, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

During the fourth quarter of last year, just 9.1 percent of U.S. residents, or 28.6 million people, had no health coverage, the National Health Interview Survey found. That’s a decline of 2.4 percentage points and 7.4 million people from a year before.

The additional 7.4 million insured builds on the 8.8 million previously uninsured people who got covered in 2014, the first year of the Affordable Care Act’s full benefits.

Obamacare’s health coverage programs remain works in progress, with 19 states continuing to refuse the law’s Medicaid expansion for the poorest uninsured and financial difficulties facing some major insurance companies participating in the exchange marketplaces where low- and middle-income households buy subsidized private insurance.

But when it comes to covering the uninsured, the law has been a clear success.

The CDC data demonstrate that 16.2 million fewer people were uninsured during the fourth quarter of 2015 than at the end of 2013.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obamacare-uninsured-rate-2015_us_5739d280e4b077d4d6f37d99

[BillZBubb]

1. Of course now all the insurers are jacking up their rates.

The rate increases are huge. So, the situation is unsustainable.

I don't know how this will play out, but something major will have to be done sooner rather than later.

[My Good Babushka]

2. I imagine there is still a pretty big gulf

between those who have insurance and those who got all the care they needed. Having insurance you can't afford to use is an increasing problem. Our metric should be based on health outcomes, not on the number of people paying an insurance company every month.