New Report Confirms Just One Third of ObamaCare Sign-Ups Were Previously Uninsured

A new non-partisan report that has yet to be published confirms that just one third of ObamaCare’s enrollees were previously uninsured, putting a wet blanket on anxious Democrats who were hoping to receive some good news about the law.

That number dwindles even further, to just one fourth, when it comes to the crucial question of which enrollees have actually paid their first month’s premium. Democrats insisted that ObamaCare was the only way to guarantee health coverage for America’s uninsured. It looks like in this respect, they’re falling far short.

From Forbes:

Today is March 31, 2014: in theory, the last day you can sign up for coverage under the subsidized Obamacare insurance exchanges. If you’ve been a regular reader of this space, you know that the numbers routinely paraded by the Obama administration regarding Obamacare website sign-ups don’t tell us much about the actual number of uninsured individuals who have gained coverage. A new study from the RAND Corporation indicates that only one-third of exchange sign-ups were previously uninsured.

The RAND study hasn’t yet been published, but its contents were made available to Noam Levey of the Los Angeles Times. RAND also estimates that 9 million individuals have purchased health plans directly from insurers, outside of the exchanges, but that “the vast majority of these people were previously insured.”

The RAND report appears to corroborate the work of other surveys. Earlier this month, McKinsey reported that 27 percent of those signing up for coverage on the individual market were previously uninsured.