Report: 300,000+ Oklahomans Without Insurance After ObamaCare Starts
Report: Thousands of uninsured Oklahomans will be left out of ‘Obamacare’ programs
BY WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Some 330,000 Oklahomans will be left without insurance after “Obamacare” takes full effect next year, even if the state accepts an controversial expansion of its Medicaid program, researchers from Harvard and City University of New York reported Thursday.
“The (Affordable Care Act), whatever its merits, will fall well short of its stated goal of providing affordable care for all Americans,” the report — released on the Health Affairs blog — concludes.
Nationally, at least 29.8 million people will remain uninsured after the fully implementation of the federal health care law and the number could be as high as 31 million, the report estimates.
In Oklahoma, the Jan. 1 implementation of the law will reduce the number of uninsured people from most recent estimates of 636,000 uninsured, the report shows.