WALL STREET JOURNAL: The survey’s findings indicated that around 3.7 million people surveyed between January and March said that they had obtained private coverage through the online exchanges run by states and the federal government…
The Obama administration announced in mid-April that the number of people who had bought coverage through the exchanges had surpassed 8 million. Republican critics of the law have contended that the number is meaningless without knowing what proportion of those people gained coverage after previously being uninsured. The Department of Health and Human Services isn’t tracking that, and the CDC’s report didn’t directly address that either.
The government findings mirror some other external studies, such as a Gallup poll that found the uninsured rate fell to 13.4% in the second quarter of 2014, after peaking at an average of 18% in the months immediately before the exchanges opened… (more)
