BHO be soarin' hiiigh...'Obama Soars To Historic New Highs As Uninsured Rate Falls To A Record Low'

[Surya Gayatri]

The good news keeps coming for President Obama as his signature legislative achievement, Obamacare, has caused the number of uninsured Americans to fall to a new record low.

According to Gallup:

The uninsured rate among U.S. adults aged 18 and older was 11.4% in the second quarter of 2015, down from 11.9% in the first quarter. The uninsured rate has dropped nearly six percentage points since the fourth quarter of 2013, just before the requirement for Americans to carry health insurance took effect. The latest quarterly uninsured rate is the lowest Gallup and Healthways have recorded since daily tracking of this metric began in 2008.

The results of the Gallup survey demonstrate that Obamacare is doing exactly what it was intended to do. The ACA is helping underserved, uninsured demographic groups of Americans get access to healthcare. Obamacare has also made employer offered insurance programs stronger by lowering costs, offering more basic preventive health care benefits, and forcing insurance companies to function more efficiently.

The passage and enactment of the Affordable Care Act was a legacy defining moment for President Obama. The President has brought positive change and transformation to the accessibility and provision of health insurance. Obama is experiencing a late in his presidency string of success that feels like a reward for his years of struggle against an obstructionist Republican opposition.

Describing Obamacare as working is an understatement of what this president has accomplished. What President Obama has successfully done will save lives. He has not only changed the way the American people view healthcare policy. He has also changed America for the better.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/10/obama-soars-historic-highs-uninsured-rate-falls-record.html

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This admirable man will go down as one of the greats.

We may not agree with his whole agenda...but damn, he's fought the good fight for many things, and now they're coming to fruition.

[riversedge]

1. k and r

[yallerdawg]

2. Can you imagine how this would be...

if the Supreme Court had left the Medicaid expansion in every state as law?

[Surya Gayatri]

3. The RW scumbags have moved heaven and earth to scupper it any way

they can, and still it survives and thrives. Suck on that Roberts, Scalia, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy (who sucks less hard).

[Cha]

4. Mahalo Surya! Thanks Obama!

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Great day to be alive and a Democrat, Cha!

Historical convergence? The FRENCH REVOLUTION began on this very day - 14 juillet 1789...

The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement

~ William Wordsworth

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

But to be young was very heaven!—Oh! times,

In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways

Of custom, law, and statute, took at once

The attraction of a country in romance!

[ismnotwasm]

6. K&R