President Obama’s signature health care law is
surging past 2015 expectations as 17.6 million Americans have signed up
under Obamacare.
HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced the new numbers during a speech at Howard University today:
According to a study we are releasing today, as
the ACA’s coverage provisions took effect, an estimated 17.6 million
Americans have gained coverage. And this progress has been even bigger
for people of color: The uninsured rate among African-American adults
has declined by more than 10 percentage points, compared to about 7.7
for the total population.”
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The ACA is about more than the Marketplace.
People are beginning to understand that the ACA is improving their care
no matter where they buy their insurance. With new protections and
required benefits, like preventive services at no extra cost, it’s
improved the quality of coverage for all Americans.
The promises made by Republican
pretender candidates to repeal and replace Obamacare are looking like
a political suicide mission as ACA enrollment continues to grow. By
Election Day 2016, it is possible that the Republican nominee will be
running on a platform of taking health care away from 20 million
Americans.
President Obama’s health care law has not only been a
political victory, but the President has changed health care delivery
in a historic way. Thanks to the election of Barack Obama to the White
House tens of millions of people have access to healthcare that they
didn’t have before.
Hundreds of millions of Americans are benefiting
from the protections offered to consumers under the ACA. Obamacare has
been a raging success, and Republicans are reeling as they to figure how
to reconcile their repeal and replace rhetoric with the real life
outcome of taking access to health care away from 17.6 million people.
Republicans have been captured in their own
Obamacare trap, and the biggest winners aren’t Democrats, but the 17.6
million people who now have access to affordable health care.
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