{"id":4142,"date":"2016-09-15T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2016-09-15T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:04:16","slug":"good-economic-results-include-more-health-care-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/good-economic-results-include-more-health-care-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Economic Results Include More Health Care Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chart from Kevin Drum at Mother Jones<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to James Hohmann of the WaPo’s Daily 202 for the following\u00a0nice summary of recent economic good news from the Census Bureau<\/a>. \u00a0That’s a long list of things we have done right and need to keep doing right<\/strong> to continue the improvement so it reaches us all.<\/p>\n

Among the many positive indicators below please notice that Obamacare led to 4 million ADDITIONAL Americans gaining health coverage in 2015<\/a>. \u00a0In a longer piece on the view that is beginning to unfold of Obama’s “transformational success,”<\/a> Jonathan Chait says this about Obamacare:<\/p>\n

Obamacare is an achievement with a scale that has only begun to dawn on the president\u2019s supporters, let alone the country as a whole. The law has decreased the uninsured population by 20 million so far. It has introduced systemic reforms into the medical economy that have begun bending the cost curve downward. (To take the most easily traceable example, by giving hospitals an incentive to avoid unnecessary and costly patient readmissions, the readmission rate has immediately dropped<\/a>, saving both money and needless death.) The government is not only spending less money on health care than it was projected to spend after Obamacare was passed, but it is spending less<\/a> than it was projected before the law was\u00a0<\/span>passed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And of course, lest we forget, Hillary Clinton wants to build on this legacy of success (“Defend and expand the Affordable Care Act, which covers 20 million people.”<\/a>). \u00a0Donald Trump calls it a disaster and promises\u00a0its repeal (“On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare.”<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Here’s Hohmann’s summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

THE BIG IDEA:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

— An annual report<\/a> from the Census Bureau includes a raft of positive economic data<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n