Biden: since November 2021, 14.5 million Americans have signed up for health insurance

President Joe Biden said Thursday that the number of Americans who have signed up for health insurance since Nov. 1 of last year was 14.5 million.

The president linked this to the pandemic relief package he initiated and the reopening of the online health insurance marketplace.

The figures cited include more than 10 million people who registered through the government’s HealthCare.gov website during the open enrollment period, Biden said in a statement. According to the president, these numbers are “the highest ever achieved” in such an event.

Biden also noted that one in seven uninsured Americans were insured between late 2020 and September 2021, with low-income Americans receiving coverage at the highest rate, as evidenced by data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“This didn’t happen by accident,” the president stressed. He stated that the American bailout plan he initiated (recall that it cost $1.9 trillion) did more to lower costs and increase access to health care for Americans than any measures implemented since Obamacare.