It's been 2 years since ObamaCare launched — yet 33 million people still don't have insurance

After nearly two full years of the ObamaCare individual mandate and insurance exchanges, some 33 million people in America remain uninsured.

Of that total, about 7 million are immigrants, many undocumented, and another 7.7 million are millennials who likely don't see insurance as worth the cost in the context of youthful good health. Beyond that, 14.4 million of the uninsured are mostly employed adults at a wide variety of income levels who show no clear pattern of likely reasons for declining coverage.

The most commonly cited (and disputed) tally of uninsured people in America before the launch of ObamaCare was 46 million, though other reputable estimates put it as low as 41 million.

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