You may have noticed that after trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) about 50 times, and telling every lie they can think of about it for several years now, they have become strangely silent on the subject in this election campaign. There is a good reason for that. They can see the statistics as well as anyone (even if they won't admit it), and they realize that campaigning against Obamacare could well cost more votes than it gets.
It turns out that there are 10 million Americans that now have medical insurance, thanks to Obamacare. And the number of uninsured Americans has dropped significantly among all genders, races, ages, and locations (according to information from Enroll America and Civis Analytics). This drop is illustrated in the chart above.
The Republicans have been able to keep some Americans from getting insurance though (a fact they probably don't want to have to explain on the campaign stump). While all states and counties have shown a drop in the number of uninsured, the Republican-controlled counties and states have experienced a smaller drop (and still have many more uninsured people). That is illustrated in the chart below.
Obamacare is not perfect, and even though it will undoubtably cover more people in the future, but the Republicans are responsible for keeping many Americans from getting health insurance coverage.
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