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Old 07-22-2014, 09:41 PM  
kane
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To be 100% fair, when you look at the numbers you can see that the biggest spike in those with no insurance came at the same time the recession hit. When all those people lost their jobs they lost their insurance with it.

The numbers are slowly starting to creep back down as more people start to find jobs, but many of those jobs are part time or they are lower paying jobs that don't come with insurance so the number has stayed somewhat high.

Has Obamacare helped bring the numbers down some? I don't doubt that it has, but I don't know how much more it will help. Not until the economy really recovers and there are more decent paying jobs will the numbers come back down to where they once were or perhaps lower.
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