"Federal researchers reported on Tuesday that the number of Americans without health insurance had declined substantially in the first quarter of this year, the first federal measure of the number of uninsured Americans since the Affordable Care Act extended coverage to millions of people in January.
The number of uninsured Americans fell by about 8 percent to 41 million people in the first quarter of this year, compared with 2013, a drop that represented about 3.8 million people and that roughly matched what experts were expecting based on polling by private groups, like Gallup....
Larry Levitt, a director at the Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health research organization, said the first-quarter findings "dramatically understate the effect" of the law, as almost half of the people who signed up for insurance during the open enrollment period did so in March and did not get their insurance cards until later. Private surveys have shown that there were eight million to 10 million fewer uninsured by the second quarter, he said."
And of course, the fact that millions of Americans now have health insurance that they would otherwise be unable to afford is a disaster of the first magnitude. The fact that they are no longer terrified at the thought of an illness driving them into bankruptcy means we must repeal ObamaCare as soon as possible. The improved financial health of rural and public hospitals now being compensated for care that they once provided for free -- at least in those states that expanded Medicaid -- undermines our nation's moral fiber and must be halted.
And that's just the start of the horror. According to projections by the Congressional Budget Office, by the end of this year, ObamaCare will provide health insurance to 13 million Americans who otherwise would not have it. By 2015, it will jump to 20 million. By 2016, it will jump to 25 million.
Oh, the humanity!!!!
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