Obamacare Reduces Kentucky’s Uninsured By 5 Percent In The First Month
Kentucky’s Affordable Care Act online health exchange signed up 32,485 Kentuckians in its first month of operation, according to the office of Governor Steve Beshear. This reduces the state’s uninsured population — estimated at 640,000 — by just over 5 percent.
Of those enrolled, 27,854 people signed up for Medicaid and 4,631 picked a private plan.
In contrast, Romneycare — the Massachusetts health care plan the Affordable Care Act is modeled upon — enrolled just 123 people in its first month.
The Bay State already had a very generous Medicaid program before its reforms but the first month’s enrollees ended up being only .7 percent of the residents who eventually signed up, which is comparable to the .7 percent of Kentucky’s uninsured population that has already picked a private plan.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/obamacare-reduces-kentuckys-uninsured-by-5-percent-in-the-first-month/
