Did a comparison on the number of US uninsured
vs. insured between 2007 (before Affordable Care Act) and 2016.
Medicare and Medicaid added 18.7 million more people than the
uninsured reduction.
In addition, this does
not count the number of insured, whose premiums are being
subsidized by the Affordable Care Act.
As the chart shows,
Uninsured dropped by 18.4 million people. However, the number of
people covered by Medicaid and Medicare increased by 37.1
million during the same period. Medicaid, alone added 5.7
million more people than were dropped from the uninsured rolls.
At the same time, Medicare added an additional 13 million
people.
Bottom line, the pea
shuffle of uninsured numbers looks like all is well,
except the rest of us are paying more for Medicaid, more for
Medicare, more for subsidies to cover insurance for the poor -
and more for increases in the cost of our own health
insurance.