Obamacare has led to health coverage for millions more people - latimes.com
President Obama's healthcare law, despite a rocky rollout and determined opposition from critics, already has spurred the largest expansion in health coverage in America in half a century, national surveys and enrollment data show.
As the law's initial enrollment period closes,
at least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gained coverage. Some have done so through marketplaces created by the law, some through other private insurance and others through Medicaid, which has expanded under the law in about half the states.
The tally draws from a review of state and federal enrollment reports, surveys and interviews with insurance executives and government officials nationwide ...
The millions of newly insured also create a politically important constituency that may complicate any future Republican repeal efforts ...
Millions more added to the enrollment figure!
But now here's more good news - contrary to the beliefs or wishes of the ACA haters on this forum, their hero Ted Cruz thought the majority of Americans also hated reform. But when he asked in his Facebook page about it he got quite an earful:
Ted Cruz’s Obamacare Facebook Poll Totally Backfires on Him | Mediaite
Last Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) posted a “quick poll” on his Facebook page asking his followers if they are “better off” now than before the Affordable Care Act passed four years earlier. A week later with the Obamacare sign-up deadline upon us, the unscientific results and in and they likely aren’t what Cruz was expecting.
Cruz neglected to use Facebook’s official poll feature, instead asking people to comment with a simple “YES” or “NO.” After seven days,
the post has accumulated more than 47,000 comments with a startling number of people answering in the affirmative.
“Yes! Everyone in my family has a pre-existing condition that range from minor to serious,” Felicia Willems wrote. “We were uninsurable on the individual market. Now we’ve got great coverage through healthcare.gov. We did NOT get a subsidy but it still fits our budget!”
“YES, best law ever!” Lili Ann Fuller said.
“YES, YES & YES!!
Hands Off My Obamacare!!” Shelley Laysi Peterson added enthusiastically.
And it goes on and on from there.
MILLIONS more say an emphatic
YES to Obamacare!
