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From the White House:

Better with Obamacare:

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed a historic law that has transformed the lives of millions of Americans.

On Monday, the Affordable Care Act will celebrate five years of significant progress. That’s a fact that people across the country can see in more affordable coverage, higher quality care, and better health, thanks to Obamacare.



Five years after the Affordable Care Act passed, 30 million young adults can no longer be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition, 105 million Americans no longer have a lifetime limit on their health coverage, and 76 million Americans are benefiting from preventive care coverage. #BetterWithObamacare

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After five years of the ACA:

More than 16 million

Americans have gained health coverage

9.4 million

People with Medicare saved a total of more than $15 billion on prescription medications

76 million

People are benefiting from preventive care coverage

105 million

People no longer have a lifetime limit on their health coverage

Up to 129 million

People with pre-existing conditions are no longer at risk of being denied coverage

ZERO

Death panels were created


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  2. JanF

    They also point out that no Republicans voted for the Affordable Care Act and that that makes it “illegitimate”. I am sure that when no Democrats vote for the repeal, they won’t claim that the repeal is illegitimate.

    I would like to say that some day that will come back and bite them but sadly there are never any repercussions. The Republicans are still taking whacks at Social Security and Medicare … and food stamps and TANF and any other safety net put in place so that people don’t live in poverty or die unnecessarily. And yet people, many of whom collect from those gubmit programs, still vote them into office.

  3. blue jersey mom

    Tom lost his health insurance when he received his MFA, and the first job he found was temporary and without health coverage. He was able to go back on to my health insurance, and he now has a permanent job with full benefits. Rob took a gap year between college and grad school, and he was able to stay on my insurance. He will have university insurance when he goes back to grad school in August. Many, many thanks to President Obama and the formerly Democratic congress.

  4. JanF

    All you have to do is look at the testimony from the King v Burwell case to see. From ThinkProgress:

    A brief filed on behalf of multiple public health scholars and the American Public Health Association, estimates that “over 9,800 additional Americans” will die if the justices side with the King plaintiffs. It reaches this conclusion by starting with an Urban Institute study showing that 8.2 million people will become uninsured in this scenario. As other research examining Obamacare-like reforms in the state of Massachusetts found that “for every 830 adults gaining insurance coverage there was one fewer death per year,” that translates to between 9,800 and 9,900 deaths if the justices back the plaintiffs in King.

  5. JanF

    From Vox: People are still worried about them

    When Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, they knew it wasn’t popular – poll after poll showed pluralities, if not majorities, opposed to the legislation after the bruising national fight that led to its passage. But Democrats had a theory about the law: as time went on, and Americans started to gain coverage, the law’s favorability would rise. […]

    Five years later, it’s fair to declare that prediction dead wrong: 83 percent of Americans still hold the same opinions they did in 2010. And of those who have changed their minds, 58 percent of them have become more negative toward the law, a new Vox poll conducted by PerryUndem shows.

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    If you want to understand why the public remains so divided on Obamacare, it’s helpful to look at what they think the health-care law is doing.

    Overall, 60 percent of Americans think more people have gotten health coverage through Obamacare. All evidence we have suggests this is true: data from Gallup, the Commonwealth Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Urban Institute, RAND Corporation, and the Kaiser Family Foundation all have similar findings – namely, that millions more people have insurance than before Obamacare’s insurance expansion.

    But there’s a stark divide between parties: 74 percent of Democrats agree with the fact that Obamacare has increased health coverage, compared with only 49 percent of Republicans.

    On and on it goes, with Democrats believing the truth and Republicans believing the FoxTalkingPoints. The entire article is worth reading. The bottom line is that people don’t know how the law works because the vast majority of people do NOT get their insurance any differently than they did before (from an employer or a union). So unless they know someone who got insurance who couldn’t or whose lifetime caps got raised or who got insurance even though they had pre-existing conditions, they have had no reason to change their opinion.

  6. bfitzinAR

    that who believes what all comes down to “who owns the media’ – understanding and opinion of ACA comes down to what media they use.  As soon as “they” got enough ownership of the media to use it as the very effective propaganda tool it can be, “they” have been using it as such.  Our nation is in a death spiral – the only way to stop it is to somehow break the propaganda machine without just turning it into a propaganda machine for our side (power corrupts, absolute power…).  The ACA is a BFD – and all the Rs would be taking credit for it – as they could have since it was their plan (to defeat “HillaryCare”) in the first place – if it hadn’t been put into place by the Black guy in the White House.

  7. JanF

    Actually, not surprising. Hospitals are required by law to care for anyone who shows up in the emergency room. If more of those people are covered by insurance, that is less unrecoverable costs incurred, while also making is less likely that hospitals serving poorer populations will go out of business. The ACA is good for hospitals, at least hospitals in states whose governors can take their ideological blinders off:

    Nationwide, hospitals’ uncompensated care costs were about $27.3 billion in 2014 – which sounds like a lot. But, according to the new HHS report, that number would have been much higher if the nation’s uninsured rate had remained at the same level as it was in 2013. If more people hadn’t gained insurance, national uncompensated care costs would have soared to an estimated $34.7 billion.

    The savings have been most pronounced in the states that agreed to accept Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion, which seeks to extend public insurance to additional low-income people. Nearly 70 percent of the savings documented in the HHS report – a total of $5 billion – occurred in the 29 states that have expanded Medicaid. And, if every state had agreed to add more people to their Medicaid rolls, their hospitals could have saved an extra $1.4 billion.

    Add that $1.4 billion to the TeaParty Tax … the price that everyone in a red state pays to support the ideology of their governors and state legislators.

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