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A record 19 million Americans are expected to purchase individual coverage, also known as Obamacare, via the health insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act for the 2024 coverage year.

The Biden administration Wednesday said more than 15.3 million Americans have already have signed up for health insurance marketplace plans in states that use HealthCare.gov, which is a 33% increase compared to this time a year ago.

“As of December 15, 2023, for HealthCare.gov states and December 9, 2023, for State-based Marketplaces, preliminary data projects that over 19 million consumers will enroll in 2024 coverage through the ACA Marketplaces — over 7 million more than when President Biden took office,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Wednesday. “This includes 15.3 million individuals who have selected a health plan using the HealthCare.gov platform. On December 15 alone, the deadline for coverage starting January 1, 2024, more than 745,000 people selected a Marketplace plan through HealthCare.gov — the largest single day in history.”

The record enrollment comes with such coverage becoming integral to Americans, having been offered on exchanges now for a decade with most of the enrollment coming from those renewing coverage year after year.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about doing the actual replacing before you crap on the work others actually accomplished? Your argument has zero weight when you're calling an imperfect solution a "bad thing".

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Single payer.

There, now I can crap on it.

And any solution that ties health care to health coverage is a bad thing.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for making my point so clearly.

We both agree the ACA is doing good for people, but there is more needed.

We disagree with what that "more" is. So while we hash out solutions the ACA is benefiting people today.

Without the ACA millions of Americans would be worse off right now.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Two thirds of all bankruptcies are for medical debt, people are still avoiding care because of cost, mental health care is still not covered, and people are still at the whims of corporate death panels.

But we won't be outright rejected for a pre-existing condition, they'll just use their lawyers and stalling tactics to avoid paying for it. So I guess that's nice.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

You're no longer talking to me, but now at me. You're not including me in your conversation anymore, so you don't need my input anymore. Thanks for conversing up to this point. Have a great day!