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15

Biggest Drop In Uninsured Rates?! Thanks, ObamaCare

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Sarah Kliff: Under Obamacare, America’s Uninsured Rate Has Fallen 35 Percent

14.1 million Americans have gained health plans since Obamacare’s coverage expansion began in 2014.
An additional 2.3 million young adults gained coverage between 2010 and 2013 — after Obamacare began requiring employer plans to offer dependent coverage through age 26. Federal officials say this is the largest drop in the uninsured rate since 1965, when Medicare and Medicaid began.

A new report from Health and Human Services finds that the uninsured rate has fallen from 20.3 percent prior to the health-care law down to 13.2 percent at the start of 2015. This is a 7.1 percentage-point decrease in the uninsured rate — or, to put it another way, a 35-percent decline in the number of Americans who lack insurance coverage. “Nothing since the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid has come close to this kind of change,” says Richard Frank, assistant secretary for evaluation and planning at Health and Human Services.

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83 Responses to “Biggest Drop In Uninsured Rates?! Thanks, ObamaCare”


  1. 1 DerBingle (@DerBingle2)
    June 30, 2025 at 8:09 pm

    Good Evening.

  2. 4 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    June 30, 2025 at 8:09 pm

    Yet again, NW, you champion #OBAMACARE with a very fine summary of the impact on reducing the uninsured!! TY

    Important stuff, today ….

    Just more Obama, making the world a better place for All

  3. 7 DerBingle (@DerBingle2)
    June 30, 2025 at 8:10 pm

    Was that Hitchcock?

  4. 9 0388jojothecat
    June 30, 2025 at 8:10 pm

    Lord have mercy….it was sunny and hot this morning in SoCal now it’s cloudy and raining…..Global what?

    • 10 MightyPamela
      June 30, 2025 at 10:14 pm

      oh! I am so jealous!!

      • 11 0388jojothecat
        June 30, 2025 at 10:22 pm

        Hi MP don’t be jealous it rained enough to make mine and all the other dirty dusty cars messy and it’s still hot. Plusnow it’s cloudy and can’t see Venus converge. :(

  5. 12 prettyfoot58
    June 30, 2025 at 8:26 pm

  6. 14 rikyrah
    June 30, 2025 at 8:36 pm

    Obamacare
    Obamacare
    Obamacare
    Obamacare

    I refuse to call it anything else.

  7. 15 meta
    June 30, 2025 at 8:39 pm

  8. 24 bella2758
    June 30, 2025 at 8:40 pm

    POTUS will be going to Tennessee tomorrow to give a speech about the ACA (Obamacare).

  9. 29 Vicki
    June 30, 2025 at 8:48 pm

    SOS Kerry is remaining in Vienna and POTUS is home.
    I guess the Cuba announcement tomorrow will be videotape?
    Unless the reporting that it will be POTUS and SOS making the announcement in the morning is mistaken.
    Anybody here know anything about this?
    Meta?

    • 30 meta
      June 30, 2025 at 8:54 pm

      It sounds like they’re going to be making separate announcements.

      http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/cuba-embassies-150630231807653.html

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  12. 46 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    June 30, 2025 at 9:05 pm

    For the record, Eternally ….

  13. 47 prettyfoot58
    June 30, 2025 at 9:11 pm

    These folks are in a TmeWarp….or something

    • 48 amk for obama
      June 30, 2025 at 9:18 pm

      I was about to post in this thread, yeah, yeah, obamacare was so last week, what have you done for me in the last five minutes?

      effing gnats.

      • 49 prettyfoot58
        June 30, 2025 at 9:24 pm

        The President launched his new overtime policies TODAY!…it has been said that it will impact more than 5 million workers…for the AFL-CIO to tweet this…is just stupid

  14. 52 Nerdy Wonka
    June 30, 2025 at 9:11 pm

  15. 53 amk for obama
    June 30, 2025 at 9:14 pm

    Cuba has successfully eliminated mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

    The head of the WHO, Dr Margaret Chan, called it one of the greatest public health achievements possible.

    It follows years of efforts to give pregnant women early access to prenatal care, testing and drugs to stop these diseases passing from mother to child.

    The WHO hopes other countries will be able to achieve the same.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33334245

    This is a BFD.

  16. 56 meta
    June 30, 2025 at 9:22 pm

    • 57 meta
      June 30, 2025 at 9:24 pm

      • 58 meta
        June 30, 2025 at 9:29 pm

        • 59 amk for obama
          June 30, 2025 at 9:38 pm

          #spoilsport. always talking sense.

        • 60 susanne
          June 30, 2025 at 9:39 pm

          well, that officially spoils the camp-out- somebody invited mark knoller, who will find a ‘both sides’ narrative no matter how genuinely wholesome the event.

          • 61 hopefruit2
            June 30, 2025 at 9:54 pm

            Mark Knoller is sniffing around for scraps of left over food, or perhaps a complimentary box of Girl Scout cookies for him to much on all night.

    • 62 hopefruit2
      June 30, 2025 at 9:42 pm

      OOoh my…I can just imagine what a MAGICAL night it must be for these little girls. A memory that will be forever etched in their minds!

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  20. 68 Nena20409
    June 30, 2025 at 9:36 pm

    I <3 Health Care News. Great job, NW.
    Congrats DB in your Au :star:
    USA! USA! USA!

    • 69 Nena20409
      June 30, 2025 at 9:38 pm

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  22. 72 Nena20409
    June 30, 2025 at 9:39 pm

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  25. 75 lovelyplains
    June 30, 2025 at 9:45 pm

    USA! USA! USA!

  26. June 30, 2025 at 9:46 pm

  27. 77 prettyfoot58
    June 30, 2025 at 9:46 pm

  28. June 30, 2025 at 9:48 pm

    • 80 meta
      June 30, 2025 at 9:55 pm

      I just truly love that with all these two have on their plates every day, they take time to do really wonderful events like this. What a treat for these young girls.


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