It's true that Obamacare enrollees tended to be sicker than pre-Obamacare individual enrollees. But that's not because Obamacare enrollees are especially sick. In fact, they're nearly identical to people enrolled through employer plans, which take all comers and therefore come pretty close to representing the average patient in America.
But if the Obamacare enrollees are about average, what does this say about the pre-Obamacare enrollees? That's pretty obvious: they were considerably healthier than average. Why? Because insurance companies routinely refused to offer individual coverage to anyone who showed even a glimmer of poor health. Obamacare put an end to that, and that's good news.
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