"The drop in uninsured is only impressive when compared to 2011, when the uninsured rate was higher than it has been since Medicare and Medicaid were launched.... Look, on the other hand, at what happened in the early 1960s: A dramatic increase in coverage -- to 80 percent of the population -- before the institution of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Indeed, it looks like Medicare and Medicaid just hitched a ride on the secular increase in health insurance during the post-war boom."

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