Despite the attempt to highlight the new Census Bureau’s reported net decrease in uninsured of 1.3 million people, or 0.6%, as a success story for the Affordable Care Act, we know the reported drop in the number of uninsured actually reflects increases only in government insurance, including 2 million newly insured under Medicare merely by aging, and another 2 million joining Medicaid; likely as a consequence of the economic stagnation under this administration.