In my post:
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) having little effect on
PA's Uninsured Rate So Far
I received several comments on Facebook like this one:
"It has had little effect on Pennsylvania's uninsured because 1. the state insurance exchanges don't open until Oct. 1, and 2. because Corbett and the GOP Legislature refused to expand Medicaid coverage in Pennsylvania"
The commenters points were correct at the time. The exchange is running regardless of the Ted Cruz inspired shutdown. Pennsylvania has a federal exchange due to Corbett's refusal to set one up for the state. The Gov. has proposed a modified medicaid expansion which Lloyd Stires has critiqued and has to be approved by the federal government. Aaron Carroll and John Green (both of whom have videos posted on thos blog and have voiced support for single payer in the past) have posted a YouTube video discussing the Affordable Care Act. 47 million were still uninsured in 2012
I was going to look at how the act has impacted the uninsured in other states so far according to the Census Bureau but alas their website is down due to the shutdown. It will be at least a year before we will know the full impact of the ACA's implementation. Massachusetts, which has had it's version of the Act since 2006, has run at around 5% uninsured which is not cause for celebration in our book. I will look at the other states when Census website is up. Whenever that is.
Democracy Now has a good discussion on the Affordable Care Act and the budget shutdown.
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