This week, study after study has shown one simple fact: the Affordable Care Act is working. Republicans simply cannot stand the fact that thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more Americans than ever are receiving great coverage that they like. Just this week, Republican leaders said that ACA could not and would not work. The facts continue to say otherwise.

NEW STUDIES SHOW THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT IS WORKING

Gallup: Uninsured Rate Sinks to 13.4%, Down to Lowest Recorded: "The uninsured rate in the U.S. fell 2.2 percentage points to 13.4% in the second quarter of 2014. This is the lowest quarterly average recorded since Gallup and Healthways began tracking the percentage of uninsured Americans in 2008. The previous low point was 14.4% in the third quarter of 2008."[Gallup Poll, 7/10/14]

Gallup: Since ACA Went into Effect, Uninsured Rate Has Dropped by 3.7 Percent" "The uninsured rate has decreased sharply since the Affordable Care Act's requirement for most Americans to have health insurance went into effect at the beginning of 2014. In fact, the uninsured rate has dropped by 3.7 points since the fourth quarter of 2013, when it averaged 17.1%." [Gallup Poll, 7/10/14]

Urban Institute: Uninsured Rate Down 22.3% Since September 2013: "This represents a drop of 22.3 percent in the uninsurance rate, which translates to a net gain in coverage for about 8.0 million adults (95% CI [5.1 million, 10.8 million]), extending the coverage gain of 5.4 million (95% CI [3.2 million, 7.6 million]) that was found as of early March 2014. Though estimates of the size of the net gain in coverage vary across surveys, there is consistent evidence of ongoing gains in insurance coverage under the ACA." [Urban Institute, 7/10/14]

Brookings: Republican Attacks on ACA May Have Increased Enrollment: "In fact, after controlling for other state characteristics such as low per capita income population and average insurance premiums, I observe a positive association between the anti-ACA spending and ACA enrollment. This implies that anti-ACA ads may unintentionally increase the public awareness about the existence of a governmentally subsidized service and its benefits for the uninsured."[Brookings Institute, 7/9/14]

Commonwealth Fund: 74% of Republicans Like Their New Insurance Coverage: "A poll of Obamacare enrollees published Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund found that 74 percent of newly insured Republicans are happy with the plans they bought. Overall, 77 percent of people who had insurance prior to the rollout of the Affordable Care Act said they are pleased with the new coverage they obtained in the last year." [Huffington Post, 7/10/14]

Commonwealth Fund: Newly Insured Young Americans Drive Decline in Uninsured Rate: "An estimated 9.5 million fewer adults were uninsured. Young men and women drove a large part of the decline: the uninsured rate for 19-to-34-year-olds declined from 28 percent to 18 percent, with an estimated 5.7 million fewer young adults uninsured."  [Commonwealth Fund, 7/10/14]

AND REPUBLICANS CAN'T STAND IT

Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair John Barrasso (R-WY):   "I am sure that tomorrow there will be another headline and another one the day after that of people who have been harmed by the health care law as we see more and more and hear from more and more Americans who feel the President has not kept his promises, that the Democrats who voted for the health care law have failed the American people and have failed to answer the concerns of the American people, which was affordable quality care. [Floor Remarks, 7/8/14]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "[Obamacare] may not have existed in the English language a few years ago, but in short order it has become a battle word for broken promises and almost cartoonish inefficiency." [Floor Remarks, 7/8/14]

Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (R-SD):  "The White House can talk all it wants about ObamaCare's supposed benefits, but if Americans aren't experiencing those benefits, no amount of talking is going to work. Most Americans aren't experiencing ObamaCare benefits. They are experiencing ObamaCare pain: higher premiums, higher deductibles, the loss of doctors and hospitals, less control and less freedom... ObamaCare is fundamentally broken... everyone knows that ObamaCare is not working." [Floor Remarks, 7/8/14]

Senate Republican Conference Vice-Chairman Roy Blunt (R-MO): "I thank my friends who have been here talking about this. Both Senator Thune and Senator Barrasso spent so much time on figuring out ways this could work better and obviously it is not working as well as people hoped it would." [Floor Remarks, 7/8/14]