# How many new people have health insurance due to obamacare now

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**Created:** [March 29, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-new-people-have-health-insurance-due-to-obamacare-now/684835 "2014-03-29T16:19:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-new-people-have-health-insurance-due-to-obamacare-now/684835/101 "2014-11-07T15:35:43Z")

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> [@Cheesesteak](#):
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> OMG, when in the history of health insurance has this sort of thing happened? Except every single fucking year to millions of people, of course.

Mine went up **100%** one year. I wish I had thought to blame the government then! It was George Bush Sr.'s fault!

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-new-people-have-health-insurance-due-to-obamacare-now/684835/102 "2015-03-17T00:17:05Z")

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As an update, now it is 16 million. Pretty impressive. And that is w/o expanding medicaid in many states (FL, TX, GA)

[http://news.yahoo.com/obamacare-shrinks-us-uninsured-16-mn-government-233352348.html](http://news.yahoo.com/obamacare-shrinks-us-uninsured-16-mn-government-233352348.html)

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> She said 14.1 million adults gained insurance since the first open enrolment period in October 2013 through March 4 of this year, **leading the adult uninsured rate to drop from 20.3 percent to 13.2 percent during that period.**
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> Under the law’s more popular provisions, another 2.3 million young adults gained coverage from 2010 by being allowed to remain on a parent’s plan until age 26.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-new-people-have-health-insurance-due-to-obamacare-now/684835/103 "2015-08-01T22:07:19Z")

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To beat a dead horse, in states that expanded medicaid the uninsured rate is now 7.5% for adults 18-64. Seeing how kids 0-18 have medicaid and SCHIP, and adults 65+ have medicare that is a pretty decent improvement. 15-17 million more people now have insurance, an increase over the 8-11 million reported in fall of 2014.

> **[Survey: America's Uninsured Rate Is Down To 10% - And Falling](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2015/06/16/americas-uninsured-rate-is-down-to-10-and-falling/)**
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> New data has raised a tantalizing possibility: That for the first time, America's uninsured rate will fall below 10%.

Granted there are several problems with the law that need to be fixed, and I doubt they get fixed anytime soon but it is still an improvement.

They need to work on making health care more affordable and fixing all the loopholes that people fall through when they get care (out of network charges, balance billing, etc).

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