Math

[angrychair]

Math...and truth...seems to be a sticking point with the republican45 administration.

In a torturous back and forth between Spicer and NBC correspondent Peter Alexander, in which Spicer became a walking billboard for logic and debate classes for young people, he commented that the CBO report on the ACA had projected that 26 million would have coverage by 2016:

Secondly, when you’re asking about the validity of the CBO report, again, I’ll refer you to the CBO itself. The number that they issue that would be insured in 2016 was 26 million people… The actual number is 10.4.”

The problem is that neither one of these numbers is valid and were completely pulled out of thin air.

The CBO, over the years after the ACA was passed, revised the number down several times but never was that revised number "26 million".
Secondly, by no legitimate source , is the estimate as low as 10.4 million.

Based on this Bloomberg article from 2016, the exact number may be hard to pin down but is very north of 10 million.
(Somewhere between 12.8 and 22 million depending on who you ask)
Let's be clear, the uninsured rate before the ACA, based on CDC and Census data, was 15.7% and in 2016, after the ACA, it's now 9.2%, the lowest uninsured rate in 50 years

It is fine to have a negative opinion of the ACA but you best come armed with facts and a better plan in hand than the current mad hatter ramblings and a plan that actually might work as opposed to the eugenics plan the republicans currently have in hand.

[Horizens]

1. Actually

The CBO estimate was about 21 million and actual enrollment 10.5 million. That estimate was before the Supreme Court ruled Medicaid enrollment voluntary and 19 states opted not to participate.

"Nearly 48 million Americans, 15.4% of the total population, lacked health insurance last year, according to a new Census Bureau report. And most of them — 59.4%, to be exact — live in states that have chosen not to set up their own insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare." Pew Research Center.