A record of over 16 million people signed up for insurance through Obamacare

[RandySF]

More than 16.3 million people enrolled in a health plan through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during the most recent open enrollment period, marking the highest number of enrollees since the program was signed into law 10 years ago.

This record amount of enrollments occurred between Nov. 1 and Jan. 15 and represented nearly 2 million more people than the number that enrolled the previous year. According to the White House, 3.6 million people, or 22 percent of those who signed up in this enrollment period, were new to the Marketplace.

“Unprecedented investments lead to unprecedented results,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.

“The Biden-Harris Administration has made lowering health care costs and expanding access to health insurance a top priority — and these record-breaking numbers show we are delivering results for the American people,” added Becerra. “We will keep doing everything we can to ensure more people have the peace of mind that comes with high-quality, affordable health care.”


https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3830023-a-record-of-over-16-million-people-signed-up-for-insurance-through-obamacare/

[TheBlackAdder]

1. I wonder if there would be more if it wasn't for those Indian Obamacare & Medicare scam calls.

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I have two phones, not even near retirement age and I am getting hammered with these scam calls.

Some claiming to be Obamacare, some claiming to be The Affordable Care Act and most Medicare.

People may think they have insurance only to find out later they were duped.

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[Mike Nelson]

2. Hmm...

... didn't folks like Mitch McConnell predict its passage would be the end the USA as an economic superpower? Have they admitted their mistake?

[Hortensis]

3. :) WE did this. Our Inflation Reduction Act increases financial assistance AND

expands eligibility to more families. And of course over these troubled times yet more people have been able to see what the ACA has meant to friends and family.

We'll do more, a lot more still left to do, when more people in our generations realize ACTION is how we get things done. And that complaints that others aren't doing enough are not.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I would be bankrupt AND dead if it weren't for the ACA.

I was earning $11,000 a year but due to pre-existing conditions I couldn't get insurance in 2011 unless I paid through a COBRA-like system as my old job as a teacher before I got very sick. I had to pay $15,000 a year for any health insurance and I did pay it from my prudent savings as a teacher. I paid $4,000 more than my income. This is common and is strictly a US-made problem. No other major countries treat their citizens like this. Pay or die. That is the choice we have in the US.

[Bev54]

5. Being a Canadian, I don't know exactly how the system works. Do people have to sign up

every year or are these new sign ups?

[Elessar Zappa]

6. I'm still here due to the ACA.

The only reason I can afford my meds is because Medicaid was expanded.