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{"id":13468,"date":"2011-12-17T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2013-02-15T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T04:11:48","slug":"2-5-million-new-reasons-to-love-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2011\/12\/17\/2-5-million-new-reasons-to-love-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"2.5 million new reasons to love “Obamacare”"},"content":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m not qualified to say whether the individual mandate of the 2010 Affordable Care Act [ACA] \u00a0is constitutional, but I am pretty certain that there are now 2.5\u00a0 million more people who think \u201cObamacare\u201d is a rather good deal. The 2.5 million are young adults under the age of 26, who, under ACA, are now allowed to retain health care coverage under their parents\u2019 policies and who have taken advantage of the opportunity.<\/p>\n
When the new ACA rule went into effect on Sept. 23, 2010, officials who predict these kinds of things speculated that perhaps 700,000 people would take advantage of that new provision. But figures released in December 2011 by the Department of Health and Human Services reveal that that estimate was far too\u2014dare I say\u2014conservative.<\/p>\n
The impact of this ACA-induced enrollment surge is noteworthy, because it has significantly reduced the “uninsured” rate for the\u00a0 19-25- year-old age bracket. According to Kaiser Health News<\/a>:<\/p>\n