Most Are Satisfied With Insurance Through Obamacare

The chart above is from the Commonwealth Fund. It shows that the people who got their insurance through an Obamacare marketplace or through Medicaid are overwhelmingly satisfied with their insurance plan. Here is what the Commonwealth Fund had to say:

The latest Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey finds the share of uninsured working-age adults was 13 percent in March–May 2015, compared with 20 percent just before the major coverage expansions went into effect. More than half of adults who currently have coverage either through the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) marketplace plans or Medicaid expansion were uninsured prior to gaining coverage. Of those, more than 60 percent lacked coverage for one year or longer. More than six of 10 adults who used their new plans to obtain care reported they could not have afforded or accessed it previously. Majorities of people with ACA coverage who have used their plans express satisfaction with the doctors covered in their networks and are able to find physicians with relative ease. Wait times to get appointments with physicians in marketplace plans and Medicaid are comparable to those reported by other working-age adults.

Now you can see why the Republicans are so worried about the Supreme Court decision that is pending on Obamacare -- a decision that could deny around 8 million people the insurance they got through the program (insurance they are very satisfied with. Heck, even 87% of the Republicans are satisfied with the insurance they got through Obamacare.

Obamacare is working. More people are covered with health insurance, and like that health insurance. And it could work even better if all the states would expand Medicaid. And the Republicans know that. They also know they would be blamed if the Supreme Court denies insurance subsidies to those millions of people -- and they have no solution for that.

The Republicans have tried to destroy Obamacare for years, and now they could be on the verge of doing that -- and it scares the hell out of them. They could well be going into the next national election with a lot of angry voters blaming them for killing their healthcare.

There's an old saying that you should be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. The Republicans wished for the destruction of Obamacare, and now that they might get that, it could do serious damage to their party.