SHOCK POLL: Pro-Obamacare States See Bigger Drop In Uninsured Rate

President Barack Obama shares a laugh with outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Friday, April 11, 2014, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington to announce he would nominate cur... President Barack Obama shares a laugh with outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Friday, April 11, 2014, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington to announce he would nominate current Budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell to replace Sebelius. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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States that have embraced Obamacare have also seen a significantly larger drop in their uninsured population, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.

In states that expanded Medicaid and actively participated in their insurance marketplace under the law, the uninsured rate dropped 2.5 percentage points, from 16.1 percent in 2013 to 13.6 percent in the first quarter of 2014.

But in states that did not expand Medicaid or participate in their insurance marketplace, the uninsured rate dropped only 0.8 percentage points, from 18.7 percent in 2013 to 17.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014.

“The states that have implemented two of the law’s core mechanisms … are realizing a rate of decline that is substantively greater than what is found among the remaining states that have not done so,” Gallop wrote. “Consequently, the gap that previously existed between the two groups has now expanded.”

Nationally, the uninsured rate has fallen from 18 percent before Obamacare enrollment launched in October to 15.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013.

The 2013 figures are based on a yearlong survey of 178,068 U.S. adults. The 2014 figures are based on a survey, conducted from January through March, of 43,562 U.S. adults.

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  1. Quick! To the unskewing room! Where’s Ted Cruz?

  2. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    What!? It its working? Well the House Republicans will try and fix this shortly with another repeal vote.

  3. Avatar for bdtex bdtex says:

    No shock at all…

  4. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    No real surprise, but it changes the baseline for figuring out how many millions will remain uncovered purely because of GOP spite, and how many thousands will die as a result.

  5. In evolution the healthier and smarter a population is, the better chance it has of survival; the sicker and more stupid a population is, the more likely it is to devolve into nothingness.
    Let all the Red State morons die off, the country will be a better place for it.

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