(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s new health secretary said the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is expanding U.S. insurance coverage and lowering consumers’ health-care costs. She declined to predict how well the program’s enrollment system will work in November, when consumers begin a new year of sign-ups.
Taking questions yesterday from reporters for the first time at a White House news conference, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said insurance programs created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have reduced the nation’s uninsured population by 26 percent. She called the reduction “the most important number” to measure the law’s success.
“For those of you covering the private sector, any market that grows at that rate in its first year, those results would be considered pretty extraordinary,” she said.
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