STUDY SHOWS 10 MILLION PEOPLE NEWLY INSURED

WASHINGTON — A new study estimates that more than 10 million adults gained health insurance by midyear as the coverage expansion under President Barack Obama’s law took hold in much of the country.

The study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the share of Americans ages 18 to 64 without insurance dropped by a little more than 5 percentage points.

States that embraced the law’s Medicaid expansion saw significant coverage gains among low-income uninsured people. About half the states have expanded.

The law offers subsidized private insurance for middle-class people who don’t have access through their jobs and expanded Medicaid for low-income adults.

The latest study results are in line with findings by Gallup and with estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

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have tried to kill the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The inquiry raised questions about new flaws in the enrollment system, which experienced computer gridlock when it went live last fall.

Ultimately, 8 million people managed to sign up for subsidized health care in federal and state exchanges that handled enrollment.

GAO also testified that there’s still a huge backlog of applications with data discrepancies.