The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, has had a significant impact on
decreasing the number of adults without health insurance, according to new data from the California Health Interview Survey, released Tuesday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
The two-year survey queried 23,160 Californians in 2013 and 24,845 in 2014.
The center said that as a result of Obamacare's 2014 expansion of Medi-Cal to those households just above the federal poverty level, the rate of uninsured Californians ages 19-64 fell from 20.6 percent to 17.4 percent.
Among all nonelderly Californians, "the uninsured rate declined to a new low of 13.6%," the center said.
On the negative side, two troubling statistics: