Lots more people will have health care. The difference between being covered when you have a medical emergency and losing what little you have obviously is the singlemost thing that can be done to narrow the wealth gap. There'll still be about 50 million Americans, mostly working poor, with zero health coverage but Obamacare is better than nothing.
People are disincentivised to work because once they go over a certain amount of earnings they fail to qualify for Obamacare. So they'll stay under a certain earnings threshold by cutting some hours, and most of these people we're talking about second or third low-paid jobs. So Obamacare will create vacancies for lots of low-paying part-time jobs. Unfortunately in modern-day America employers will have no problem finding replacements and for the replacements at least their new second or third jobs will help brisge their individual wealth inequality gap.
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