Obamacare Works 

I flagged this article the other day.

Under “Obamacare,” the share of Americans without health insurance has dropped to a historic low of about 9 percent, with room to go even lower. But even as the economy has expanded, major government surveys point to a lackluster rebound for employer-based coverage.
“It’s very clear that the Affordable Care Act has done most of the work in decreasing the number of uninsured,” said economist Robert Kaestner of the University of Illinois Chicago.

It’s really hard to argue, using non-gamed statistics, that Obamacare hasn’t been a success. It’s likely it’d be even more successful with some sort of single payer option, but progress is progress.

Yes, there are problems (e.g. still poor coverage at higher premiums, some confusion and poorly run state markets). But improving Obamacare (again, some sort of single payer option, expanding Medicare to cover more lower income folks) is almost inarguably the path we should be taking.

(Via Daily Kos.)