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New Obamacare Signups Tied to Medicaid Expansion

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Most new healthcare signups under Obamacare came through the expansion of Medicare and not private insurance, according to a new Heritage Foundation report.

The Heritage study examines the numbers from the first half of 2014, and it shows 71 percent of the increased health care coverage in the Affordable Care Act came through Medicaid expansion in 25 states and the District of Columbia.

"The inescapable conclusion is that, when it comes to covering the uninsured, Obamacare so far is an expansion of Medicaid," Heritage Foundation health policy experts Edmund F. Haislmaier and Drew Gonshorowski write in a research paper scheduled for release Thursday.

The numbers also show 61 percent of the gain in individual coverage was offset by a drop in employer group coverage.

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