More than 10 million uninsured adults obtained health coverage during Obamacare’s first open enrollment period, according to a study published on Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.
The study, which included researchers from Harvard University and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, found that the number of uninsured Americans had dropped by 5.2 percentage points by the second quarter of 2014, which corresponds with 10.3 million adults gaining coverage.
The findings track with previous estimates. They also gain found a significant divergence between states that expanded Medicaid under the law and those that did not. The former group’s uninsured rate fell by 6 percentage points among the expansion population; the latter’s by 3.1 percentage points.
The study’s methodology, which can be read in full here, covered survey data from 420,000 adults from January 2012 to June 2014.
I blame Obama.
OMG!!!
How did they manage to escape the death panels?
Except yesterday or the day before there was a story here at TPM that the NEJM said 20 million were covered
Wow!! so together that’s 30 Million people!!!
It would be helpful to add some statistics about how many lives that saves on an annual basis (i.e. how many people per 100,000 without insurance die from otherwise treatable conditions versus people with insurance).
I’m always amused, and sickened, by how the “pro-life” right ignores the fact that their repeal position on Obamacare would literally cause thousands of people, mostly between the ages of 18 and 64, to die unnecessarily.