Uninsurance Rate Falls To Five-Year Low As 3.3 Million Enroll In Obamacare

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This is from mid February.

Uninsurance Rate Falls To Five-Year Low As 3.3 Million Enroll In Obamacare

By Sy Mukherjee

The Obama administration on Wednesday released its monthly update on health insurance enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. Nearly 3.3 million Americans enrolled in private health plans through Obamacare’s state and federal marketplaces from October through February 1, with 1.1 million signing up in January alone. The data comes on the same day that a Gallup survey found that the U.S. uninsurance rate has hit a five-year low:



“We’re seeing a healthy growth in enrollment,” said Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a conference call with reporters. According to Sebelius, an additional 6.6 million Americans have been deemed eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) during the first four months of the open enrollment period.

While it’s still unclear how many of those Americans were newly eligible for coverage in states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare, an Avalere Health analysis estimated that between 28 and 46 percent of people who signed up for Medicaid through December were newly eligible thanks to the expansion.

In some encouraging news for the health law, 27 percent of people who picked new health plans in January are aged 18 to 34. That’s a three percentage point rise from the first three months, when less than one in four Americans who chose health plans were from that age group, and tracks with administration projections that young Americans’ enrollment in Obamacare will continue to spike as the initial six-month enrollment period comes to a close on March 31.

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/02/12/3284581/uninsurance-rate-year-obamacare-enrollments/

More:

The percentage of Americans who report they are insured through Medicaid has increased to 7.4% from 6.6% in the fourth quarter of 2013. This uptick may be because some states have chosen to participate in the Medicaid expansion under a provision of the Affordable Care Act.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/167393/uninsured-rate-drops-far-first-quarter-2014.aspx

Medicaid Expansion Has Already Cut The Number Of Uninsured West Virginians By A Third
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024366112

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1. Kick! n/t

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2. 3.3 million??? There are more than 40 million uninsured.

Talk to us some more about these small victories. You must work for the Onion.

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3. Well,

"3.3 million??? There are more than 40 million uninsured. Talk to us some more about these small victories. You must work for the Onion."

...it took Medicare 20 years to reach 30 million. Medicaid took 30 years. No joke.

Oh, here are the overall numbers.

ACA Signups: KA-POW!! Medicaid Overhaul Posted, CA Updated, Grand Total approaches 12M!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024368026

Sorry to interrupt the RW distortion push.

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4. Kick

for not Jennifer Rubin.