Number Of Uninsured Down In States Embracing Obamacare

Posted by | April 16, 2014 13:36 | Filed under: Good News Politics Top Stories


A Gallup poll shows that the states that have participated in Obamacare have lowered their uninsurance rates, which is not true for the states that have resisted.

Twenty one states and the District of Columbia have agreed to both set up an insurance marketplace and expand Medicaid, the major mechanisms through which Obamacare seeks to extend coverage to additional Americans. Those states have reduced their population of uninsured residents by an average of 2.5 percent so far this year. The 29 states that haven’t taken both of those measures, on the other hand, have seen just a 0.8 drop.

Click here for reuse options!
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.