popular to do that. there are definitely, as i outline, some problems with obamacare. you ve got some solutions you re proposing. ali, let me say first of all, thank you. one of the reasons why i said i would come on today, i had no idea you were going to do that segment is because you deal in the details of the policy that we need to get to as lawmakers and as people who do need to work together. thank you. i thought that was a good synopsis of the challenge. the issue is that the republicans almost have a war on medicaid. they want to cap it and lower and kick people off of medicaid when we know either worked. it s helped them get coverage. it s helped the economy and states and cities they are in and instead have ignored the issue which you outlined 6 to 7% of the individual market where in some places it s worked well, in other places it hasn t. what do we need to do to make improvements? so stop the war on medicaid, stop overall repeal and let s work across the aisle to focu
million in 2010 to 28 million in 2016 in large part of the individual mandate requiring all to get health coverage. millions of america s poor who couldn t afford it and millions more with illnesses who couldn t find an insurer to cover them benefited. the vast majority of americans, whether they re on employer plands or med case expanded roles are doing just nine or are better off under obamacare s. but a significant few are worse off. health premiums have shot up more than expected, especially in the individual market, affecting 21 million people, which, by the way, represents just 7% of americans with health insurance. and even smaller segment within the individual market, lower to middle income americans, who aren t poor enough to qualify for medicaid but make too much to receive insurance subsidies and aren t old enough for medicare, have been crushed by obamacare premiums. that doesn t make for a death spiral. but it s clear that obamacare is
for health care than all other developed countries and rich countries and things like that. i ve heard some democrats talk about moving to a single payer system when, in fact, what we need to achieve is universal coverage of some sort. single payer is just one piece of that. what should the democrats strategy be to say, hey, the parts of obamacare that worked we should be doing more of without triggering republican ire because they decided single payer is socialist medicine. first of all, i think everybody should have access to health care and it should be universal. the issue is what should we get done right now. in that segment we talked about the individual market is part of the affordable care act, theres a plan working very well in new york right now called the basic plan or essential plan. so families there are buying insurance for about $500 of an annual premium. and basically what new york did is bundled up a population, so there s 650,000 people and
are trying to replace and repeal obamacare they say it s in a death spiral. a washington post shows half american prefer the current health care law. time to separate fact from fiction. for fact s sake, is obamacare really broken? republicans are wrong. obamacare is not in a death spiral. the health law s signal achievement has been to reduce the number of americans who don t have health insurance. america s uninsured went from 49 million in 2010 to 28 million in 2016 in large part because of the individual mandate requiring all to get health coverage. millions of america s poor who couldn t afford coverage and many that couldn t find insurance benefitted. vast measures on employer plans
or medicaid expanded roles are doing just fine or are better off under obamacare, but a significant few are worse off. health premiums shot up more than expected, especially in the individual market affecting 21 million people, which, by the way, represents just 7% of americans with health insurance. an even smaller segment within the individual market, lower to middle income americans who aren t poor enough to qualify for medicaid but make too much to receive insurance subsidiaries and aren t old enough for medicare have been crushed by obamacare premiums. that doesn t make for a death spiral but it s clear this obamacare s insurance mandate isn t robust enough. the incentive for america s young and healthy to sign up and stay covered has been weak because of ever rising premiums. an estimated 2 million americans have already dropped their coverage this year alone. they have decided it s cheaper to pay $695 penalty for an individual or 2.5% of income for