Becker's Healthcare May 1, 2018
Morgan Haefner

The number of working-age Americans without health insurance grew by an estimated 4 million since March 2017, according to the Commonwealth Fund’s ACA Tracking Survey.

The U.S. uninsured rate among working-age Americans now rests around 15.5 percent, compared to 12.7 percent about a year ago. Lower-income families earning less than $61,000 saw the biggest jumps in uninsured rates when compared to 2016 numbers, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

The Commonwealth Fund attributed the increase to two factors: a lack of legislative fixes to the ACA’s weaknesses and changes to the law initiated by President Donald Trump’s administration. These...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicaid, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Public Exchange
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