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“referring to this article just printed in the Record: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released some very good news, further proof that ObamaCare is working and insuring millions of Americans--16.4 million to be exact. Reading from the Washington Post report that is now part of this Record, I state: About 16.4 million adults have been added to health insurance rolls under the Affordable Care Act, which provided especially robust gains in coverage for minorities-- And everyone, in fact-- and states that expanded their Medicaid programs, administration officials announced Monday. The total includes 14.1 million adults who joined the insurance rolls since October 2013 and 2.3 million younger adults ages 19 to 25 who were able to remain on their parents' health insurance plans since October 2010, when that provision of Obamacare went into effect. As if that weren't enough good news, the Department of Health and Human Services also reported that uninsured rates for minorities are plunging. Quote: The Latino uninsured rate dropped by 12.3 percentage points between the first quarter of 2014 and the same period in 2015 as 4.2 million adults gained coverage. . . . About 2.3 million African Americans enrolled, dropping that group's uninsured rate by 9.2 percentage points, and 6.6 million whites obtained coverage, a decline of 5.3 percentage points. So it is clear that the Affordable Care Act is working just as Congress intended.…”