11.4 Million People Signed Up For Obamacare In 2015

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Source: TPM

The White House announced on Tuesday that 11.4 million people signed up or re-enrolled in health insurance through the federal exchange during the 2015 enrollment period.

On the last day of the enrollment period, on Feb. 15, HealthCare.gov saw its biggest enrollment day ever.

About 7 million people signed up for health insurance during the 2014 enrollment period.

President Obama made the announcement in a video posted on Facebook.

"It gives you some sense of how hungry people were out there for affordable, accessible health insurance. And that’s really the top line message. The Affordable Care Act is working," he said about the 2015 enrollment numbers.

video
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153217474489238&set=vb.63811549237

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/enrollment-numbers-insurance-2015

[Cha]

1. Good.. the more the merrier! mahalo cal

[pnwmom]

20. And this number doesn't include those who bought individual policies OFF the exchanges.

I wonder how they can count them.

[C Moon]

2. That's 11.4 million more people the GOP wants to be uninsured.

[randys1]

4. And I fear that the SC is going to gut it...hope to god I am wrong.

Although, in a weird way, if they did that it might lead to single payer.

That isnt their goal of course, their goal is to kill poor people, but it might lead to better things.

[iandhr]

3. Many DUers are having a sad right now

[Hissyspit]

7. Because we should have EVERYONE provided under a much more cost-saving single-payer system?

Sure they are.

That said, ACA has helped me and many, many other Americans.

[awake]

28. ACA is the 1st step to single-payer

We have to walk before we can run once americans get use to ACA then we can push the more cost-saving single-payer system as a optional add on to the ACA, soon after everyone will go for it.

[Cha]

30. Oh you mean the purities.. that can't appreciate those who are being HELPED because

everyone isn't being helped YET?

There would be more people with Health Care if reCON govs didn't wipe out Medicaid.. and there might be more Dem govs if Dems got out and VOTED in the Midterms.

[iandhr]

31. Indeed

[Aristus]

5. That's a huge election win/loss margin.

Republicans repeal the ACA at their peril...

[underpants]

6. The selfie ad worked I guess

Thanks for promoting it via "controversy " MSM!

[Cryptoad]

8. Hey GOP,,,,,

if you really want to win back the White House in 2016,, get the SCOTUS to gut ACA and take it away from these 11.4 million....... they will thank you in the Polling booth!

[LyndaG]

9. Great!

So glad to read this news.

[Chef Eric]

10. I was one of them.

Thanks to my subsidy, I'm paying a third of what I paid last year.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court will not put an end to it.

[cal04]

12. Me too.

I had no medical because my job wanted us to pay almost half of our salaries for health insurance
Now, I finally can afford it.

[kacekwl]

14. Me too ,

I have not had health insurance for over 9 years and my wife who has several pre-existing conditions has insurance that does not depend on a job or lack of. Thanks Obama.

[cal04]

17. Hi kacekwl

It's great that you and your wife are now covered
I work with people who make three times what I do and pay next to nothing for health insurance, while people with my salary weren't getting a paycheck, just to pay for their plans
I'm thankful I didn't need to have it, but glad to have an affordable plan, in case I do

[Midnight Writer]

18. You hit the nail on the head

The folks who have the wealth to afford health insurance are usually insured through their jobs, while the working folks with low income have had no affordable access to health care. Obamacare is a step in the right direction to help those that need it the most. It's not enough, but it is a start that was unthinkable 8 years ago.

[kacekwl]

32. Hi cal04

Thanks , it is a load off my mind for sure.

[Fred Sanders]

11. But what about ISIS, there is no time to mention such things. Democrats are failing to take credit?

So say the media so it must be. Resistance is futile, Obama will never be given credit for anything.

Even more urgent we have the Presidents's back, the media is stabbing at it in ever more furious frustration that even despite their very best efforts - his job approval keeps rising or stable and the GOP Congress remains as popular as broccoli.

[msongs]

13. sadly dems are incompetent at taking credit and marketing the brand and accomplishments

but someday they might change

[George II]

16. Incompetent at marketing the brand? Obamacare??? REALLY?

[F4lconF16]

23. Uh, yeah. Obamacare has negative connotations for lots of this country.

The Republicans did an impressively good job at dominating the narrative, keeping people scared, controlling the media, and just straight up lying about it. Meanwhile, Dems ignored it, or worse for them, ran from it.

[George II]

26. As Obama said himself, he wonders what they'll call it when they admit it was successful.

[F4lconF16]

29. Yes...but the point is that Obamacare was poorly marketed. nt

[George II]

15. "It's a failed policy"....because it was SUCCESSFUL and wasn't a republican idea!

[Midnight Writer]

19. Ironically, it was pretty much a Republican idea

Even Newt Gingrich supported a very similar plan. His aim was to eliminate "freeriders" who went to emergency rooms and got free (i.e. unbilled) service. The very conservative Heritage Foundation proposed a plan very close to Obamacare. And of course, Romneycare was a model for Obamacare, with some of the same folks designing it.

[F4lconF16]

24. +1

Something we would all do well to remember.

[jwirr]

21. Re-enrolled? What is that all about?

[secondwind]

22. I think the SCOTUS will surprise us... I think Scalia is going to vote in favor of ACA....

[randome]

25. Just because it makes sense according to his past interpretations?

Maybe. Although he seems genuinely unhinged at times and thus immune to logic and consistency.
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27. Kicking for everyone including me, who for the first time in years

has health insurance.
Thank you Pres. Obama