3.3 Million Have Signed Up Under the ACA

The Department of Health and Human Services' latest report on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) indicates that 3.3 million have signed up thus far through the Federal and state health insurance exchanges.  That brings the percentage of people without health insurance to a five-year low of 16 percent.

Opponents of the ACA, or "Obamacare" as they call it, are busy finding anecdotal cases of people having problems not finding health insurance, often due to being misinformed or stubborn (recall the flawed example offered by Rethuglican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers in her dishonest rebuttal to the State of the Union).  As the Rethugs spin their tales on "Obamacare" implementation running up to the 2014 mid-terms, expect more anecdotes -- distorted or made up -- to be publicized and soon debunked. They can't claim they were helpful in getting 3.3 million Americans, and counting, health insurance for the first time.