Obamacare's First Year: How'd It Go?
by JOHN YDSTIE
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"Somewhere between 10 and 11 million people are now insured who weren't insured before, and that's good," Laszewski says.
Most of those people gained insurance through Medicaid, which was expanded in 27 states and the District of Columbia under Obamacare. The rest got their insurance through the federal and state exchanges.
"By and large, it looks like the first year of the exchanges has been quite successful despite a really tragic start to open enrollment with tremendous IT problems," says Caroline Pearson, vice president at Avalere Health, a consulting firm.
"So far so good, but it's still early," Gruber says. "Remember this market, the individual insurance market, is a market where premiums were rising 10 percent or more per year before the Affordable Care Act. This year, by the best estimate so far, they're rising by a very small amount, if at all. I think that's one very exciting development that's pretty solid."
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