“Affordable, accessible health insurance, the Affordable Care Act is working.” Well, if this is how you make health insurance affordable, why not just make it “free” for everyone; that would make it really affordable. Oh wait, would that work? Over 80% of the people enrolled are getting a subsidy to make their insurance premium, but not necessarily their health care, “affordable.” Affordable along with inequality must be the most misused words since 2008.
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Tuesday that 11.4 million people had selected private health insurance plans or renewed their coverage under the Affordable Care Act in the enrollment period that ended Sunday.
“It gives you some sense of how hungry people were out there for affordable, accessible health insurance,” Mr. Obama said in a video released by the White House.
Administration officials said the numbers would grow in the next week as insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, signed up people who had tried to enroll but encountered technical problems on HealthCare.gov or state insurance websites.
The White House celebrated the latest numbers as evidence of the success of the health law, which was adopted in 2010 without any Republican votes.
“The Affordable Care Act is working,” Mr. Obama said. “It’s working a little bit better than we anticipated — certainly, I think, working a lot better than many of the critics talked about early on.”
via Obama Cites Health Plan Tally of 11.4 Million – NYTimes.com.
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