Modern Healthcare May 6, 2015
Roughly 17 million more Americans have health insurance coverage since the launch of the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges and Medicaid expansion, according to a study published Wednesday by RAND Corp. researchers. The number of uninsured, non-elderly adults dropped from 42.7 million in September 2013 to 25.8 million in February 2015.
The RAND study found that 11.2 million Americans enrolled in private health plans through the state and federal marketplaces during the first two open-enrollment periods. That’s slightly below the CMS’s estimate of 11.7 million sign-ups through the exchanges.
In addition, the RAND researchers estimated that 9.6 million people were newly enrolled in Medicaid since expanded income eligibility became an option for states. The federal government has indicated that 10.8 million...
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