Obamacare has helped Idaho big time

New federal data show the Affordable Care Act has reduced the share of Idahoans without health insurance by more than one-third since the law took effect in 2010.

The share of Idahoans without health insurance dropped from 17.7 percent in 2010 to 11 percent in 2015, a 38 percent decline, according to the data compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services .

If Idaho had chosen to accept the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults, that rate would have fallen more, because an estimated 59,000 uninsured people would have been insured by 2015, the agency said/ Audrey Dutton , Idaho Statesman. More here .