An Obamacare enrollment trend to strike fear in the heart of Republicans

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14. you are not counting the people aged 18-25 who are

on their parent's plans.


That 3.3 million number is only people who have used the government exchanges in the past few months.


A more reasonable estimate for everyone who now has health care due to the ACA is more like 10 million.



If the Supreme Court had not changed the law, and if (R)s had not sacrificed their own constituents, that number would be much higher. Unfortunately, the red states not expanding Medicaid is keeping the number of uninsured much higher than it should be.


This will take several more years to shake out. Considering that some basic health care as a right was first proposed by Teddy Roosevelt roughly a hundred years ago, a few more years isn't that big a deal. It sure is better than not passing reform. That terrible Nixon/(R) system that we had been forced to live under was completely dysfunctional.