The Centers for Disease Control released a pair of reports on Monday
calculating that 11 million people who had been uninsured now have
insurance, thanks to Obamacare. While 37 million people are still
uninsured—some 4 million who would be eligible for Medicaid expansion if
the states took it, the remainder undocumented immigrants and people
either unaware of or purposefully boycotting insurance—
this is the lowest uninsured population in more than 15 years.
The CDC reports compared the first nine months of 2014 with
annual statistics going back as far as 1997, from the National Health
Interview Survey. Among the highlights:
— The number of uninsured dropped from 48.6 million in 2010 to 37.2
million for the period from Jan.-Sept. last year. That amounted to 11.4
million fewer uninsured since the signing of the health care law.
— In 2014, about 27 million people said they had been without coverage for more than a year.
— Some 6.8 million people were covered through the health care law's new insurance markets during July-Sept. of 2014.
— The most significant coverage gains last year came among adults
ages 18-64. Nearly 40 million were uninsured in 2013. But that dropped
to 32.6 million in the first nine months of 2014.
— States that moved forward with the law's Medicaid expansion saw a bigger decline in the share of their residents uninsured. READ MORE
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