{"id":6068,"date":"2014-04-02T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2014-04-02T15:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:41:58","slug":"obama-boasts-7-1-million-have-signed-up-to-obamacare-but-study-shows-just-858000-newly-insured-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/04\/02\/obama-boasts-7-1-million-have-signed-up-to-obamacare-but-study-shows-just-858000-newly-insured-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama boasts 7.1 MILLION have signed up to Obamacare – but study shows just 858,000 newly insured Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

A triumphant President Barack Obama declared Tuesday his signature medical insurance overhaul a success, saying it has made America\u2019s health care system \u2018a lot better\u2019 in a Rose Garden press conference.<\/p>\n

But buried in the 7.1 million enrollments he announced in a heavily staged appearance is a more unsettling reality.<\/p>\n

Numbers from a RAND Corporation study that has been kept under wraps suggest that barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans \u2013 nowhere near 7.1 million \u2013 have paid for new policies and joined the ranks of the insured by Monday night.<\/p>\n

Others were already insured, including millions who lost coverage when their existing policies were suddenly cancelled because they didn\u2019t meet Obamacare\u2019s strict minimum requirements.<\/p>\n

Still, he claimed that \u2018millions of people who have health insurance would not have it\u2019 without his insurance law.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The goal we\u2019ve set for ourselves \u2013 that no American should go without the health care they need \u2026 is achievable,\u2019 Obama declared.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u2018The debate over repealing this law is over,\u2019 he insisted. \u2018The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.\u2019<\/p>\n

Full article: http:\/\/www.dailymail \u2026 whos-signing-up.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A triumphant President Barack Obama declared Tuesday his signature medical insurance overhaul a success, saying it has made America\u2019s health care system \u2018a lot better\u2019 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 \u2013 nowhere near 7.1 million \u2013 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\u2019t meet Obamacare\u2019s strict minimum requirements. Still, he claimed that \u2018millions of people who have health insurance would not have it\u2019 without his insurance law.\u2019 \u2018The goal we\u2019ve set for ourselves \u2013 that no American should go without the health care they need \u2026 is achievable,\u2019 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. \u2018The debate over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[128,1252],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-aca","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}