Why ObamaCare Will Still Leave 31 Million Uninsured

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Front Page Magazine:

On May 17th, a day after Congress’ latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Gibbs tweeted out an almost true, but little known fact about Obamacare.

 

 

His tweet read like this:

“If #Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance.”

This was news for many people. What does he mean Obamacare will leave 30 million Americans without health insurance? Wasn’t Obamacare supposed to be like universal health care?

In response, PolitiFact Ohio decided to take a look at Rep. Gibbs’ claim. It turns out he was almost right. The number he was looking for was actually 31 million. What PolitiFact found was a report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicting that in the post-Obamacare world of 2023, 31 million, non-elderly Americans would still be uninsured.

Admittedly that is a significant decrease, considering that in 2012 it’s estimated that 45 million Americans lacked health insurance. However that number is nowhere near the Obama “change you can believe in” promise of near universal health insurance.

PolitiFact made no attempt to explain the findings of the report. But we will. Let’s take a closer look.