Is it working?
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/love-it-or-hate-it--obamacare-is-accomplishing-this-one-thing-165445642.html
After six months of partisan drama over the Affordable Care Act, there’s finally enough reliable information to assess whether the law is doing what it was supposed to do. The qualified answer seems to be yes.
There have been too many controversies over the ACA to count, and it will be a long time before it becomes clear whether Obamacare, as it’s known, is smart, cost-effective policy. But the law is fulfilling its main purpose: To provide health care for more people and reduce the portion of Americans without health insurance. “What’s pretty amazing is the number of people who seem to have gotten coverage, even with all the problems,” says analyst Gary Claxton of the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.
Most of the attention has been focused on the politically charged question of whether enrollment through one of the exchanges created by the law would hit thresholds predicted before the ACA went into effect. So it was a victory of sorts for President Obama when he was able to announce recently that 8 million people have enrolled in Obamacare, considerably more than earlier predictions of 6 million to 7 million.
What has gotten less attention, but is equally important, is a surge in the number of people who have gotten insurance through a source other than Obamacare so far in 2014. The upshot is that the number of uninsured Americans--which totaled around 47 million in 2013--is likely to drop sharply this year. The data is still incomplete, but there are three credible sources that all show the same trend, more or less:
know this there would not be as much confusion had it not been for republican misleading the people with misinformation and exaggerated lies that now have come home to roost in their front yard. it's becoming more and more evident that they deceived "we the people" in favor of keeping a status quo that the people don't and have not wanted for decades and if so bad why are the insurance co.'s not making any noise, or are they content to let the republicans carry their water of which almost all has been spilled.
either way the title says it all "love it or hate it" llucky for those who still want to hate it we'll still cover you too.
