Number of uninsured drops below 10% for first time in 50 year history of CDC Study of Uninsured

[stevenleser]

Yeah, really horrible that Obamacare.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2015/08/12/for-first-time-americas-uninsured-rate-is-below-10/

For the first time in more than 50 years of surveys, the CDC on Wednesday reported that more than 90% of Americans — 90.8% of us, to be specific — have health insurance.

Until now, no major survey had ever found that the uninsured rate in America has hit single digits.

The data comes from the National Health Interview Survey, which the CDC has been conducting for more than 50 years. The questions have sometimes changed, but until this year, the answers haven’t: More than 10% of respondents, and sometimes as many as 18% of Americans, have reported that they’ve been uninsured.

[uponit7771]

1. Thx Obama !!!!!

[lovemydog]

2. The Affordable Care Act

is a resounding success in terms of helping people get covered so that they don't go bankrupt over a catastrophic illness. And you can no longer be denied if you have a preexisting condition.

Now we must keep pushing forward toward single payer.

[Recursion]

6. There's probably a reason single payer isn't common worldwide

Pretty much just Canada and Austria do it (and Austria allows self-insurance). Most countries either have a national health service of some sort, or a multi-payer system (and, for that matter, most of the national health services are multi-payer).

Why we're fixated on that one model of health insurance, single payer, when the world is full of others that seem to work very well, isn't clear to me.

[Hekate]

4. Kicking

[hedda_foil]

5. Isn't that way lower than predicted?

And that's with a large number of states not taking the Medicaid expansion.

[ronnie624]

7. Excellent.

But hopefully, the day is near, when we can discuss health care and other basic goods and services in terms of human rights and universal access, with no consideration of profits for corporations and rich people.

Making profit from peoples' need for medical care, just seems barbaric, to me.

[TM99]

8. Indeed.

Insurance coverage does not always translate into affordable health care, the necessary health care, or excessive costs still for the health care that is warranted.

But Yay! The insurance companies will make record profits.