Obamacare Statistics and Facts (2023)

Also, please note that this is NOT a political website. Therefore, I present curated stats and take no public position here on either side of the debate.

Date of Obamacare (ACA) passage:

March 23, 2010

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Date of HealthCare.gov launch:

October 1, 2013

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Number of states that HealthCare.gov serves:

39 (the rest have state exchanges)

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Total number of HealthCare.gov users:

17.864 million users

Last updated 12/22/15

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Number of health insurance exchange signups for 2019:

11.8 million

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Number of HealthCare.gov users that selected a plan for 2018:

9.2 million users

Last updated 2/3/17

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Number of HealthCare.gov users that selected a plan for 2016:

9.6 million users

Last updated 2/3/17

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Average cost of a plan purchased on HealthCare.gov in 2019:

$612

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Average cost of a plan purchased on HealthCare.gov in 2018:

$621

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Number of HealthCare.gov users that just window shop the Marketplace:

6.572 million users

Last updated 12/22/15

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Percentage of insurance companies that HealthCare.gov has access to:

over 90%

Last updated 12/11/15

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Average number of issuers per state in the HealthCare.gov Marketplace:

10 issuers per state

Last updated 10/30/15

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Average number of health insurance plans per county in the HealthCare.gov Marketplace:

50 plans

Last updated 12/30/15

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Number of HealthCare.gov 2016 enrollees that are under the age of 35:

4 million

Last updated 1/8/16

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Percentage of enrollees in the HealthCare.gov Marketplace that chose a silver health care plan in 2015:

69% of enrollees

Last updated 10/30/15

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Percentage of re-enrollees from 2014 in the HealthCare.gov Marketplace that chose a different plan in 2015:

31%

Last updated 10/28/15

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Percentage of consumers who selected a HealthCare.gov Marketplace plan in 2015 that received financial assistance to help paying for the cost of their premiums:

86%

Last updated 10/30/15

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Average monthly subsidy for those users that received financial assistance to help paying for the cost of their premiums:

$271/month

Last updated September 2015

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Number of health insurance issuers participating in the HealthCare.gov Marketplace in 2016:

nearly 240

Last updated 10/30/15

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Percentage of individuals who selected a plan in the HealthCare.com Marketplace in 2014 that selected the lowest cost plan:

43%

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Percentage of individuals who selected a plan in the HealthCare.com Marketplace in 2015 that selected the lowest cost plan:

31%

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Original budget for HealthCare.gov:

$93.7 million

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Final cost of HealthCare.gov:

$1.7 billion

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Reported number of people that signed up for health plans through the health insurance exchanges the day after Donald Trump was elected:

100,000

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Number of health insurance exchange new enrollees for 2017 to date:

1.1 million

Last updated 12/16/16

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Number of health insurance exchange renewals for 2017 to date:

2.9 million

Last updated 12/16/16

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Projected number of people expected to sign up for health exchange plans for 2017:

13.8 million

Last updated 11/10/16

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Number of uninsured Americans before Obamacare:

57 million

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Number of uninsured Americans now:

26 million

Last updated 1/17/17

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Number of Americans insured by Medicaid in 2016:

70 million

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Percentage of Americans that don’t have health insurance:

12.3%

Last updated October 2017

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Current Affordable Care Act approval rating:

54%

Last updated 2/25/17

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Number of Americans that received Medicare coverage under Medicaid expansion:

12 million

Last updated 7/9/19

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Number of states that expanded Medicaid:

37

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Amount that the Trump administration has cut Obamacare enrollment advertising:

90%

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