Why is the Affordable Care Act Popular?

There are over 258 million adults in the US.

Let’s say all the 21.4 people who use the ACA exchanges get subsidies, to simplify things.

That’s 8.2 % of the adult population.

I don’t think that can account for Obamacare’s popularity, just as a matter of arithmetic.

Even if you include the Medicaid expansion, you’re still far from a majority of adults.

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