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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObamacare Is Working And This Graph Proves It Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt:
Because reducing the number of Americans subject to the devastation of having no health insurance coverage was the prime directive of the ACA, remember?
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/obamacare-enrollment-numbers-103451.html?hp=l1
"The poll, part of the Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index, shows 16% of Americans were uninsured as of Feb. 10, the last day the survey of 19,000 people was conducted. The poll was begun on Jan. 2.
The last time the percentage of uninsured reached that level was in early 2009. Previous polls found the number of uninsured was close to that mark in early 2011, at 16.1%, and late 2012, at 16.3%. The slice of uninsured peaked at 18% in mid-2013, the pollsters said."
"The poll also found that the number of uninsured invincibles, or those aged 18-34, is declining. Uninsured consumers aged 18-25 is down to 23.3%, showing a steady decline since the ACAs passage allowed them to remain on their parents plans. The percentage of those without coverage ages 26-34 was down to 25.7%, a level not seen since late 2010. Consumers in those age groups are needed to help pay for older, less healthy patients."
Scuba
(53,475 posts)What with the positive changes in the law that took effect before 2014, plus all the newly insured, I would expect we would be seeing a significant reduction in medical cost-induced bankruptcies.
Anybody???
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)we should be seeing an up-tick in small business starts.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)is this:
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)new bankruptcy laws went into effect making it far more difficult to qualify?
babylonsister
(171,035 posts)doc03
(35,296 posts)than 2009. Now if 6 months or a year from now it is still trending down I will agree. Why the big spike the first half of 2013? Is that people that have been dropped?