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Study: "Obamacare" To Cover More Uninsured Columbus Residents

A new study finds the number of uninsured Columbus residents will decline under the Affordable Care Act. The non-partisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's review of 14 U.S. cities projects a 61-percent decline in Columbus' uninsured population by 2016. 94 percent of Columbus residents would be covered through their jobs, Medicaid, the health-insurance marketplace or Medicare.

Full details of the study may be found through this link:  http://www.rwjf.org/en/research-publications/find-rwjf-research/2014/06/the-aca-and-america-s-cities--fewer-uninsured-and-more-federal-d.html

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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