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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Mar 31, 2014, 10:17 AM Mar 2014

New Analysis: 9.5 Million Uninsured People Covered Under Obamacare

DYLAN SCOTT – MARCH 31, 2014, 10:14 AM EDT

About 9.5 million Americans who were previously uninsured have gotten health coverage under Obamacare, according to a new analysis.

The Los Angeles Times reported the number, which combines data from an unpublished study by RAND Corp. with other publicly available figures. It's one of the most comprehensive efforts yet to asses the law's impact on the uninsured as open enrollment comes to a close.

The numbers break down like this:

- 6 million people have enrolled in private coverage through Healthcare.gov and its state counterparts. The Times estimated that about one-third of them -- or about 2 million -- were uninsured, based in part on new numbers from RAND.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-study-obamacare-uninsured

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New Analysis: 9.5 Million Uninsured People Covered Under Obamacare (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2014 OP

Nice milestone. And congrats to all the folks who are now covered. Tarheel_Dem Mar 2014 #1

My daughter and I are 2 of those 9.5 million! Glitterati Mar 2014 #2

the news gets better for obama every day.... Takket Mar 2014 #3

You're going to have to give the teapublicans time Glitterati Mar 2014 #4

Tarheel_Dem

(31,241 posts)

1. Nice milestone. And congrats to all the folks who are now covered.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:41 PM

Mar 2014

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)

2. My daughter and I are 2 of those 9.5 million!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:44 PM

Mar 2014

Now THAT'S a group I'm seriously proud to be a part of today.

Takket

(21,629 posts)

3. the news gets better for obama every day....

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:46 PM

Mar 2014

and yet no one seems to care.... outside of this community anyway

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)

4. You're going to have to give the teapublicans time

Reply to Takket (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:52 PM

Mar 2014

to get over the heartbreak they're undergoing at the moment. I mean, hell, they voted 50 TIMES to try and stop Americans from hearing about Obamacare.

I have MSNBC on in the background today, and all Chuckie Todd and Andrea Mitchell can talk about is the 48 million uninsured who aren't being reached by Obamacare.

But, have no doubt, they'll come up with some creative way to deal with their depression in a minute.

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