Center on Budget and Policy Priorities September 12, 2024
The share of people lacking health coverage reached an all-time low for the second consecutive year in 2023, falling to 7.9 percent, according to American Community Survey (ACS) data the Census Bureau released today. That’s down from the previous record of 8.0 percent in 2022. Unfortunately, this welcome record is tempered by findings that children’s uninsured rate rose, climbing from 5.1 percent in 2022 to 5.4 percent in 2023.
The ACS data are consistent with the record-low uninsured rate found for 2023 in National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) preliminary data, released in June, as well as Congressional Budget Office preliminary estimates of a record-low uninsured rate in 2023. The Current Population Survey (CPS), released Tuesday, differed only modestly in finding...
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