How is the new health insurance program working?

A survey done by the Commonwealth Fund has found some interesting data about how people are liking their new health care insurance, and how effective the program is.

77% of people who had insurance before but changed to new coverage under the ACA are happy with their new plan.  This presumably includes all those featured in Republican anti-Obamacare ads who were angry about "losing" their old policies.

74% of Republicans who did not have insurance before are happy with their coverage.

The overall rate of uninsured working class adults dropped from 20% to 15% in this survey (end of March).   Later data show it dropping further to 13.4% at the end of June.   But that's not the most startling figure:   a total of 20 million people have enrolled in the various parts of the ACA:

   7.8 million under age 26 were able to stay on their parent's plans
   8 million were enrolled under the marketplace exchanges
   5 million purchased insurance directly from insurers 

And this particular count of 20 million doesn't seem to include those in the expanded Medicaid programs.

On the negative side:  In those states that did not expand Medicaid, more than one-third of the lowest income residents in those states are still uninsured.   This is not the fault of the ACA but of the governments of those states which did not expand Medicaid and of SCOTUS which removed their incentive to expand, thus giving them an option they took for political reasons.

With $418 million spent on anti-Obamacare ads vs $28 million on pro-Obamacare ads, it just doesn't look like a good investment for the Koch Brothers and their ilk.   In spite of all the attempts to kill it or weaken it or make it difficult to obtain -- the ACA is alive and thriving and helping people. 

Ralph 

PS:  On a side note, the Brookings Institute released its study of the effects of anti-Obamacare tv ads and found that, based on per-capita spending state by state:

   increased spending was tied to declining enrollment in red states
   but
   increased spending was tied to increasing enrollment in blue states

The conclusion they draw is that the ads called attention to the opportunity in those states where people were not politically turned against Obamacare.  It's even been suggested that all the negative ads gave people the idea they'd better sign up now lest the Republicans actually did manage to kill it.