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Tuesday, April 14th, 2015

Survey: Nearly 9 In 10 US Adults Now Have Health Insurance

Author:     RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
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Publication Date:     April 13, 2015, 11:10 AM EDT
 Link: Survey: Nearly 9 In 10 US Adults Now Have Health Insurance
Stephan:   Here, in my view is some excellent news. I had dinner tonight with a good friend who developed a kind of radiation poisoning in Afghanistan as a result of being exposed to the depleted uranium rounds fired by the U.S. military during the course of working with an NGO to help displaced Afghans, particularly women. Until Obamacare she could not get health insurance. now she can. And so could millions of other Americans, who now have coverage.
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WASHINGTON — Underlining a change across the nation, nearly 9 out of 10 adults now say they havehealth insurance, according to an extensive survey released Monday.

As recently as 2013, slightly more than 8 out of 10 had coverage.

Whether the new number from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index turns out to be a high-water mark for President Barack Obama’s health care law, or a milestone on the path toward his goal of getting virtually all U.S. residents covered, remains to be seen.

The law’s future is still up in the air, and will turn on factors ranging from an upcoming Supreme Court decision on consumer subsidies to actions by Republican leaders in states opposed to Medicaid expansion.

The Gallup-Healthways survey found that the share of adults who lack insurance dropped to 11.9 percent for the first three months of this year, the lowest level since that survey began its tracking in 2008. The latest update overlaps with the period when the health law’s second sign-up season was winding down.

Coverage gains from 2014-2015 translate to about […]

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