Apparently ObamaCare is Just for Poor People

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) release their monthly report, dated May 1, 2015, in which it stated that 11.7 million individuals have enrolled for Medicaid/CHIP since the rollout of the Medicaid expansion.  And just a few days later, on May 5th, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report which stated that since several of the Affordable Care Act’s coverage provisions took affect, 16.4 million uninsured people have gained health insurance coverage.  The figure reported by HHS included the 2.3 million young adults who gained healthcare through the provision in the law which allowed them to stay on their parent’s insurance plan until the October 2013 rollout of the healthcare exchanges. 

So what do these figures tell us?  Well, they tell us that over 85% of those who have benefited for ObamaCare are of low income.

And while it is important to assist those that are in need, the intent of ObamaCare was to reduce the number of all uninsured people not just those eligible for FREE Medicaid.  However, using the Obama Administration’s own published figures, it looks like they left the middle class out of their plan.

It is important to note that at the time of the ObamaCare rollout, the number of uninsured people whose income was above that which qualifies for Medicaid was roughly double that of those who qualify for Medicaid.