Who has Benefited From Obamacare (NYT Article)

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I can't post the breakdown pics b/c they're interactive.

However, this article proves that this wasn't an expansion of health insurance. The ACA was just a disguised way to expand Medicaid.

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The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, but the law’s biggest insurance expansion provisions went into effect in January, when millions more people qualified for state Medicaid programs, and new subsidized insurance plans sold in state marketplaces kicked in.

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That state boundaries are so prominent in the map attests to the power of state policy in shaping health insurance conditions. The most important factor in predicting whether an American who had no insurance in 2013 signed up this year was whether the state that person lives in expanded its Medicaid program in 2014. (Just consider the contrast between Kentucky, which expanded Medicaid, and Tennessee, which did not.)

In 2012, the Supreme Court gave states the right to opt out of the expansion. In all, 26 states and the District of Columbia expanded Medicaid programs this year, and at least one more state — Pennsylvania — will expand next year. Predominantly, the states that expanded had Democratic political leadership, while those that declined were governed by Republicans, but there were exceptions in both directions.

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If you look at the maps, you will see there is a divide in increased "coverage" based on states that expanded Medicaid.

Also, only 10M new people signed up. A few million lost coverage. So if this program was aiming at insuring 30M+ people, it's been an expensive failure. The ACA is just terrible. It's not expanding insurance coverage, and instead it is expanding possibly the worst government program (Medicaid).

There are a lot of graphs showing different rates and changes by race, gender, urban/rural, etc.