# Uninsured rate drops to lowest number since Obama took office

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninsured-rate-drops-to-lowest-number-since-obama-took-office/683385>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 10, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninsured-rate-drops-to-lowest-number-since-obama-took-office/683385 "2014-03-10T21:24:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninsured-rate-drops-to-lowest-number-since-obama-took-office/683385/121 "2014-03-18T15:29:12Z")

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Of course there are other things always going on, but that increase is too steep at just about the right time, just as the decrease is also too steep at a convenient time. I don’t think it can be claimed that the 18% wasn’t due to ACA but the 15.9% number is. Given how the numbers have gone up and down, it could very well be that the next quarterly poll shows a big increase in the uninsured.

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