The GOP keeps trying to poke holes in the 7.1 million ACA enrolled figure, but they’re going to find that the numbers are running against them.

In NYS, the state has enrolled 865,000 in the marketplace, and 70% are those who had no prior health insurance. So, even with all the glitches, the number of enrolled is a significant reduction in uninsureds.

NYS ACA enrollments find 70% are those who had no prior health insurance. http://t.co/dqGE2V2Xpp

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 3, 2014

The GOP will find that its fight against health insurance for uninsureds will be significantly harder than they think. Moreover, they keep playing with unskewed polling and wishful thinking in hoping that they can repeal ACA down the line (as candidates/prominent GOPers keep pushing that as their ultimate goal).

While the rollout of the ACA website was awful, I’m more concerned with the problems they had this past week. Those need to be resolved and they should be ahead of the next enrollment period in November. Everyone should take a hard look at how and why that happened, but GOPers will focus on how to make enrollment even more painful and point to it as a failing point for the ACA overall.

That would ignore that enrollment in health care isn’t always an easy process even through employers. It ignores that insurers are constantly playing with their network coverages/doctors included. They are constantly pushing to minimize their costs/payouts to maximize their profit, which comes at the insureds expense. The ACA didn’t totally change that dynamic, though there are mechanisms in place to try and make sure that the premiums paid are in line with claims as far as marketplace policies are concerned.