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It is getting really difficult to ignore that Obamacare is working very well, and I'll walk

you through the recent data on this. Earlier this week, Gallup put out the newest data we have on

the Uninsured Rate, and they found not surprisingly that states that have embraced the Affordable

Care Act have seen the largest drops in the number of residents going without health care.

This is obvious, right, Lewis? If you pass a law mandating people be insured,

the number of people that are uninsured will drop. This is not really a controversial or

surprising element of it. No, the controversial aspect of it is the mandate itself, but you know,

that's another separate issue. So the more interesting data to look at is whether we are also seeing

health care delivery happening in a better way, and are we seeing the dire predictions that were

attached to the Affordable Care Act come true or not? So several recent studies show that

none of the bad predictions from Republicans to put it in a simple way are coming true.

A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association at the end of July

concluded that Obamacare is successfully connecting more Americans to health services like

doctors and medication. Since the law took effect, more people say they have a primary care

physician and fewer people say they are struggling to afford their care. This is different than

just having care. So yeah, you pass a law saying people have to have some kind of health insurance

on paper. You're going to reduce the number of people that are uninsured, but having access to care,

saying I don't have a problem affording care, saying I now have a primary care physician,

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