Normchacho said:
The ACA provides coverage to about 90% of the people living in the United States. The remaining 10% of people living in America can't get coverage because
1. They aren't here legally and are therefor uneligible.
2. Fall into the "Medicad Gap" because their States opted out.
3. Decided it was either cheaper to just pay the fine, or didn't know they were supposed to have health insurance.
4. Were exempt from the requirement for one reason or another.
The ACA certainly hasn't been perfect, and has made it more difficult for a lot of people to get the same quality of health insurance as they had before the bill passed. But it's also done good things like making sure someone with a pre-existing condition can't be denied health insurance, and allowed about 16 million more people to get health insurance in the first place. Droping the rate of uninsured Americans from 17.6%, to 10.9%
Beyond that, Americans are pretty evenly split in their opinion of the ACA. Recent polling by Gallup suggests that 49% disaprove of the law, while 47% approve of the law. That, as Gallup points out, is within their margin of error.
Has the ACA been perfect? Of course not. Has it been as good as many of it's supporters had hoped it would be? No, not really. Has it been as bad as it's detractors said it would be? Not even close. Has it been a total disaster? No.
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