Though the goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to extend health care coverage to most Americans, 30 million Americans still won't have coverage under the law by 2016, according to new analysis in the journal Health Affairs.
Though 30 million is a lot less than the 48.6 million U.S. residents who are uninsured, the number still falls well short of the promises of the law, the study authors said.
It was estimated reform would cover 30 million of the nearly 50 million people uninsured right now.
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