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Obama boasts 7.1 MILLION have signed up to Obamacare - but study shows just 858,000 newly insured [message #248510] Wed, 02 April 2014 11:40
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A triumphant President Barack Obama declared Tuesday his signature medical insurance overhaul a success, saying it has made America's health care system 'a lot better' in a Rose Garden press conference.

But buried in the 7.1 million enrollments he announced in a heavily staged appearance is a more unsettling reality.

Numbers from a RAND Corporation study that has been kept under wraps suggest that barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans nowhere near 7.1 million have paid for new policies and joined the ranks of the insured by Monday night.

Others were already insured, including millions who lost coverage when their existing policies were suddenly cancelled because they didn't meet Obamacare's strict minimum requirements.

Still, he claimed that 'millions of people who have health insurance would not have it' without his insurance law.'

'The goal we've set for ourselves that no American should go without the health care they need ... is achievable,' Obama declared.

The president took no questions from reporters, but celebrated the end of a rocky six-month open-enrollment period by taking pot shots at Republicans who have opposed the law from the beginning as a government-run seizure of one-seventh of the U.S. economy.

'The debate over repealing this law is over,' he insisted. 'The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.'

Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594309/President-pl ans-victory-lap-strong-Obamacare-enrollment-Sebelius-faces-u npopular-law-blank-stare-tough-questions-remain-whos-signing -up.html


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