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Medicaid coverage has increased by 13.8 million individuals and private coverage has had a net increase of 2.7 million individuals.

Once again, the data confirm that Obamacare’s principle coverage effect has been to expand Medicaid.

All the anchor babies receive CHIP Medicaid coverage which Medicaid enrollment is up by millions - plus dental, free schooling, probably lunches, supplies too. The birthing, which is expensive, is on our Medicaid and for how long the mother needs it. This all costs us dearly - you pay more for healthcare plus high deductibles and higher property taxes. If they do not leave the country by some order, they will be bused to their school of choice if that takes effect - another expense, buses, drivers, insurance cannot be cheap for taking a busload of kids back and forth daily.

Every single school should be just as good as the next - that is a real school system. The school buses in the am & afternoon make you sick - diesel fuel and running foul too. Hard to take 5 days a week in the inner cites where pollution from pubic trans at every block, delivery trucks, etc. abound.

Exhaust pollution causes heart attacks and stokes, clogs your veins by inflammation from the particulates you breathe in that never leave. Nobody does anything @ these foul running school buses - incredible. No Air Management Division, no Clean Air Council doing a thing! Unbelievable that we should be subjected to this pollution. Bus drivers, buses with no seatbelts; I would not want my child to be taken somewhere else by whomever. Ridiculous. Kids in the cities should WALK to school.

New Data Show Obamacare Insures Less Than 20 Million, Most on Medicaid


Alyene Senger / @AlyeneSenger / January 26, 2017



The Obama administration had repeatedly claimed that the Affordable Care Act expanded coverage to 20 million new Americans. (Photo: iStock Photos)

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Alyene Senger @AlyeneSenger
Alyene Senger focuses her research and writing at The Heritage Foundation on the intricacies of health care as a policy analyst in the Center for Health Policy Studies. Read her research.




Many Obamacare supporters claim the law has expanded health coverage to upwards of 20 million Americans, but new data shows that isn’t accurate.
As part of Congress’ continued push to repeal Obamacare, the House Budget Committee held a hearing this week titled “The Failures of Obamacare: Harmful Effects and Broken Promises."


Heritage Foundation expert Ed Haislmaier was one of four expert witnesses who testified.


Haislmaier presented new data regarding gains in health coverage since the full implementation of Obamacare began in 2014.
Most of the reports on coverage gains, such as the Obama administration’s, are typically based on government or private survey data rather than actually counting the change in private insurance or Medicaid program enrollments.


Haislmaier’s testimony highlighted his previous findings that only about 14 million people had gained coverage during the first two years of Obamacare’s full implementation (2014-2015). In addition, he reported preliminary findings for 2016.


Data is not yet available for the full year, but based on the first three quarters of 2016, Haislmaier finds a net total increase in coverage of about another 2.5 million people.


He explains:

The preliminary data show that during that period, enrollment in the individual market grew by 842,028 individuals, enrollment in fully insured employer plans declined by 1,128,597 individuals, enrollment in self-insured employer plans increased by 776,780 individuals, and Medicaid and CHIP [Children’s Health Insurance Program] enrollment increased by 2,044,809 individuals.

In sum, Medicaid coverage accounts for 81 percent of the total gain in coverage for the first three quarters of 2016. This is consistent with Haislmaier’s previous findings that the bulk of the coverage gains since Obamacare’s full implementation have been in the Medicaid program, not private insurance.

Adding the 2016 preliminary data to the coverage gains from 2014 and 2015, there has been a total net gain in coverage of 16.5 million individuals from Obamacare’s launch through the first three quarters of 2016.


Medicaid coverage has increased by 13.8 million individuals and private coverage has had a net increase of 2.7 million individuals.


Once again, the data confirm that Obamacare’s principle coverage effect has been to expand Medicaid.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/26/ne...t-on-medicaid/