New Report: ACA Responsible for Declining Uninsured Rate

A new report by the Commonwealth Fund revealed outstanding data about the Affordable Care Act: the ACA is responsible for the declining uninsured rate; it's working; and it's providing Americans with peace of mind.

Some key facts from The Commonwealth Fund:

• 9.5 million additional adults ages 19 to 64 now covered by insurance;
• 60 percent of these 9.5 million newly insured adults – or 5.7 million – were young adults under age 35;
• The national adult uninsured rate declined from 20 to percent to 15 percent;
• In states that expanded Medicaid, the uninsured rate for poor adults dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent;
• In comparison, in states that have refused to expand Medicaid, the uninsured rate for low income adults has only dropped from 38 percent to 36 percent;
• Sixty percent of adults with new coverage reported they had visited a doctor or hospital or filled a prescription;
• Seventy-three percent of people who bought health plans and 87 percent of those who signed up for Medicaid said they were…satisfied with their new health insurance;
• Seventy-four percent of newly insured Republicans liked their plans;
• And 77 percent of people who had insurance before were happy with their new coverage.

As The New Republic reported:

[ACA critics], your case just got weaker…

…conservatives insisted that Obamacare enrollment statistics were some kind of sham…A new report suggests that the critics were wrong about that.

Republicans, it's time to drop the political repealing and undermining stunts and allow the Affordable Care Act to do its work.