Showing posts with label Health Program. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Fewer uninsured Americans thanks to Obamacare


REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – As critics of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act continue to attack it, a new report shows the law is actually working.

Gallup says the rate of Americans without health insurance has dropped, thanks in part to Obamacare.

As of the end of 2014, 12.9 percent of adults lacked health coverage. That’s down by over 4 percent since the program rolled out in 2013.

As of last fall, about 6.7 million Americans have enrolled in the health program.

The expansion of Medicaid in more than half of the country also helped to bring down the number of uninsured Americans.

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source: www.abs-cbnnews.com