That depends if you want to consider new Medicaid recipients part of “ObamaCare”
Obamacare was sold on the premise that up to 40 million people were uninsured. If the Republican Party was serious about ending Obamacare it would be talking about the shortfall versus 40 million. It would be talking about the subsidy per individual actually enrolled in the program. This subsidy would include the taxpayer money required to administer the system, the direct subsidy from the treasury and the states, and the transfer of wealth from other taxpayers via higher insurance premiums as a result of the ACA. These higher premiums are essentially a subsidy due to individuals being forced to pay for benefits they don’t want in order to provide those benefits for others (i.e. birth control, pediatric dentistry, annual physicals).
It is clear this program is a massive failure and huge burden on the taxpayer. The administration is not going to give us real analytics. Why doesn’t Congress put the CBO to work and give us the real story?
Two links for you:
Obamacare is “Working a Little Better Than We Expected”––Judge for Yourself
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2015/02/obamacare-is-working-better-than.html
Excerpt:
This lack of an automated enrollment process not only causes lots of headaches but also makes the enrollment numbers the administration is reporting awfully soft. One carrier told me they only ended up with half of the net January enrollments HealthCare.gov originally reported to them.
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How Many People Have Enrolled So Far in Obamacare’s Second Open Enrollment?
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2014/11/how-many-people-have-enrolled-so-far-in.html
Excerpt:
The answer is that this enrollment process is so screwed up we will have no earthly idea how many new people have enrolled and how many 2014 enrollees remained on the program until at least April 2015 ...... So, that is one person being counted three times and we won’t have just George’s status cleared up until George’s 2014 carrier can delete him from its rolls in April. (Note: READ THE EXAMPLE of George at the link to see how badly the enrollment process is messed up & why it will take until April to sort it out)
6.5m of those that ‘signed up’ are fairly advanced in years and may be difficult to reach...