If Only the Supreme Court Had Saved Freedom Instead

Hmm, I wonder if there’s any variable that could explain these results:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday released the latest results of the National Health Interview Survey. According to the survey, just 9.2 percent of the population, or about 29 million people, had no coverage during the first three months of 2015. That’s down from 11.5 percent in 2014, 14.4 percent in 2013, and 16 percent back in 2010.

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Of course, the goal of the Affordable Care Act isn’t simply to help people get health insurance. It’s also to make sure more people can pay for their medical bills and get access to care when they need it. New research suggests that this, too, is happening.

A survey that the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation released at the end of July compared newly insured Californians with those who remained without coverage. The ones who had gotten health insurance, mostly through the Affordable Care Act, were substantially less likely to report having trouble paying for medical care — and substantially more likely to say their health care needs were being met.

That report became public just a week after a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association produced yet more evidence that the health care law had the net effect of improving access to medical care.

I’m beginning to think that a nominally liberal periodical publishing a widely hyped story that, inter alia, asserted that 35 million uninsured was the ceiling of the ACA’s effects was grossly irresponsible.