On the recordSeptember 17, 2015
Finally, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped dramatically last year. All the press yesterday and this morning are reporting this, but this comes as no surprise. The good news happened as the Affordable Care Act's major coverage provisions took effect. This is further evidence the Affordable Care Act is working. The share of people without coverage dropped in every State in the Union in 2014. That is the first time in the history of the Census reports that every State has improved. States that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act did better than those that did not. States that adopted the new law's Medicaid expansion had a 3.5-percentage-point drop in their uninsured rate. That is about 1\1/2\ times the 2.3-percentage-point decline in States that did not expand the program. Overall, the national uninsured rate dropped by 2.9 percentage points. Now, all these numbers mean that the uninsured rate is now at the lowest in the history of our country--the lowest ever. Once again, the Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, is working. ____________________
