President Obama’s health law has led to an even greater increase in health coverage than previously estimated, according to new Gallup survey data, which suggest that about 12 million previously uninsured Americans have gained coverage since last fall.
That is millions more than Gallup found in March and suggests that as many as 4 million people signed up for some kind of insurance in the last several weeks as the first enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act drew to a close.
Just 12.9% of adults nationally lacked coverage in the first half of April, initial data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index indicates, the lowest rate since the survey began in 2008.
Eighteen percent were uninsured in the third quarter of 2013, just before Americans could start shopping for coverage on the new online marketplaces created by the law.
12 million is an impressive number by anybody's standards.
The more this kind of news spreads the harder it will be for the Republicans to beat Democrats over the head about the roll out or the Obamacare website.
The thing about these numbers is that they don't include the MILLIONS of people who would have been kicked off their insurance for a "pre-existing condition" or who would have be denied coverage and can't be now.
ReplyDeleteLord Jeebus, Gryphen, stop it! Can you libtards really be this gullible???
ReplyDeleteDoes ANYONE believe that 8 million people signed up for insurance on a website that didn't work on Day 1 and thus, can never, ever work properly in the future??
Drudge is reporting that Obama will be forced to admit that instead of a resounding success, the Eight Million Obamacare Catastrophe (as the RWNJs pray it will be popularly known as) is simply the number of times a single person attempted - and failed miserably - to use the government's non-functioning website.
Wake up and smell the coffee, libtards!!! Nobody got insurance because of this disastrous law!! It's an utter and complete failure!! As our esteemed Canadio-Cuban overlord-wannabe, Rafael "Ted" Cruz repeats obsessively, the ONLY choice for Amercia is to repeal every single provision of this mess - even the good ones - and start over! Even if it takes another 100 years to enact its replacement, ANYTHING is better than Obamacare!!
Ted's right as rain - and TWICE as handsome! And so, I'm making this pledge here on Gryphen's defunct blog - in front of the last few remaining librul deadenders and the "smh/GROW UP!/I feel sorry for you" troll, also too - that I will decline to use my own newly acquired Obamacare insurance policy for an entire month to protest the socialism, the government overreach and the First Amendment violation that is at the heart of Obama's Folly (as we severe conservatives pray it will be known as)!
(unless, of course, an unforeseen medical emergency arises and then I will use my Obamacare insurance coverage. I may be a short-sighted, low-information, compassionless severe conservative ideologue, but I'm not stupid!)
Remember, it's not just a Good Friday, it's a GREAT Friday!
Again . . . I heart you something bad--Beldar.
DeleteThere is nothing handsome about Ted Cruz. His face and personality are about as ugly and creepy as it gets.
DeleteIt's snark, 5:26...very very good snark!
DeleteTed Cruz and Sarah Palin are NOT attractive people - too evil inside to be attractive outside/physically. He looks greasy too!
DeleteThe Mind-Boggling Stat That Explains The Amazing Obamacare Comeback
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-enrollment-stats-how-many-signed-up-on-last-day-2014-4
they don't call us The Procrasti-Nation for nothing...
DeleteObama Urges Dems To Lean Into Obamacare For The Midterms
ReplyDeletePresident Barack Obama offered some of his most direct advice yet Thursday to congressional Democrats running for re-election in 2014: Embrace Obamacare.
"Democrats should forcefully defend that millions of people ... we're helping because of something we did," Obama said in the White House briefing room after announcing that 8 million Americans had signed up for private coverage under the law, blowing past projections. It was in response to a question asking whether it was time for Democrats to start campaigning on Obamacare.
"I don't think we should apologize for it. I don't think we should be defensive about it," he continued. "I think there is a strong, good, right story to tell."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/obama-obamacare-offensive-2014
Republicans are having to eat crow and I couldn't be happier. What a horrible group those folks have shown themselves to be over the recent years. Anti women, racists, could care less about the folks they serve, anti health care and on and on.
ReplyDeleteAny person who votes for a Republican in upcoming elections is absolutely nuts! Dems, USE the Affordable Care Act to your advantage and know that many of us will be out there supporting your party across the nation.
The Republican promote family life and being Christian. Be sure and review them individually (especially in the United States Congress - i.e. John McCain, Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, etc.) as there are affairs, divorces, they do not live their supposed 'christian' faiths, lies, cheaters, don't support the poor and are the ones doing away w/middle class.
http://obamadiary.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/29088_image.jpg?w=638&h=463
ReplyDeleteAll things Obamacare.
ReplyDeletehttp://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/18/rise-and-shine-802/
Looks like the GOP will be referring to it as the ACA from not on and soon be taking credit for it. Just in time for the 2014 elections.
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested in seeing what the GOP governors who didn't expand medicaid have to say for themselves when all is said and done? How many people in their states remain uninsured and vulnerable to the whims of the insurance companies?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how may are up for re-election. Not going to be easy explaining to the voters how they can't get insurance because you're a tool but vote for me anyway.
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