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TexasTowelie

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Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:52 PM Feb 2017

Obamacare: California's uninsured rate drops to record low

The Affordable Care Act, the same law that President Donald Trump and the Republican majority Congress are intent on replacing, has helped California reduce its uninsured rate to a record low of 7.1 percent.

That’s almost 10 percentage points less than in 2013, when 17 percent of Californians were uninsured and just before the health care law took full effect, according to a new survey released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC survey, which covered the period of January to September 2016, also showed a dramatic improvement nationwide, with just 8.8 percent of the country being uninsured, down from 14.4 percent in 2013.

The 2010 health care law, better known as Obamacare, helped the Golden State establish Covered California, one of 12 state-based health insurance exchanges.

Read more: http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/02/14/obamacare-californias-uninsured-rate-drops-to-new-record-low/

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1. Poof
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 01:39 AM
Feb 2017

I wonder where we would be if so many states weren't controlled by the party that is obsessed with denying health insurance to people that do not have that through work or other means.



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