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Let them know how much you appreciate losing your health care coverage.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/poll-shows-why-obamacare-court-210000524.html
The stakes are getting higher in the looming Supreme Court case that threatens to rip apart the president’s health care law.
A new Gallup poll released today shows that Obamacare’s provisions are largely responsible for driving America’s uninsured rate down to a 7-year-low—further illustrating how serious an adverse ruling could be for millions of people who currently have coverage under the law.
According to Gallup, the uninsured rate dropped from 17.3 to 12.9 percent in 2014, with tens of millions of people gaining health coverage through Obamacare’s health exchanges as well as the law’s Medicaid expansion. Changes in state uninsured rates were especially dramatic in states that have embraced the health care law more than others, including setting up their own Obamacare exchange, and expanding their Medicaid programs, according to the survey.
The latest poll comes just one week before the Court begins hearing oral arguments in the now infamous King v. Burwell, which could have a major impact on the health care law and the millions of people who now have coverage because of it.
The entire case centers on whether a phrase in the law’s language provides subsidized coverage for Obamacare enrollees in the 37 states that rely on the federal exchange. Plaintiffs in the case charge that the law only mentions subsidies for people enrolled in states that set up their own exchanges. They say that the administration intentionally didn’t mention the federal exchange to incentive states to set up their own.
If the Court sides with the plaintiffs, at least 6 million enrolled through the federal exchange will lose their subsidized coverage. This could cause a ripple effect throughout the entire health system, causing millions more to lose their health coverage. The Urban Institute estimated that about 8 million people, including hundreds of thousands with employer-based plans, could lose their coverage---reversing all of the work the law has done to drive down the uninsured rate.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/poll-shows-why-obamacare-court-210000524.html
The stakes are getting higher in the looming Supreme Court case that threatens to rip apart the president’s health care law.
A new Gallup poll released today shows that Obamacare’s provisions are largely responsible for driving America’s uninsured rate down to a 7-year-low—further illustrating how serious an adverse ruling could be for millions of people who currently have coverage under the law.
According to Gallup, the uninsured rate dropped from 17.3 to 12.9 percent in 2014, with tens of millions of people gaining health coverage through Obamacare’s health exchanges as well as the law’s Medicaid expansion. Changes in state uninsured rates were especially dramatic in states that have embraced the health care law more than others, including setting up their own Obamacare exchange, and expanding their Medicaid programs, according to the survey.
The latest poll comes just one week before the Court begins hearing oral arguments in the now infamous King v. Burwell, which could have a major impact on the health care law and the millions of people who now have coverage because of it.
The entire case centers on whether a phrase in the law’s language provides subsidized coverage for Obamacare enrollees in the 37 states that rely on the federal exchange. Plaintiffs in the case charge that the law only mentions subsidies for people enrolled in states that set up their own exchanges. They say that the administration intentionally didn’t mention the federal exchange to incentive states to set up their own.
If the Court sides with the plaintiffs, at least 6 million enrolled through the federal exchange will lose their subsidized coverage. This could cause a ripple effect throughout the entire health system, causing millions more to lose their health coverage. The Urban Institute estimated that about 8 million people, including hundreds of thousands with employer-based plans, could lose their coverage---reversing all of the work the law has done to drive down the uninsured rate.
