Health Affairs June 20, 2024
On June 18, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report describing its predicted trends in health insurance coverage for the next decade. The CBO serves as an independent, non-partisan source of budget analysis for the U.S. Congress. Its projections for future enrollment in health coverage programs provide a benchmark for the agency’s estimates of how proposed legislation will impact the federal budget and national coverage levels.
In its latest report, the CBO projects that the all-time-high rate of insurance coverage in 2023 represents a peak, and significant numbers of people will become uninsured between 2024 and 2034. However, these projections are not our destiny; several policy actions and investments in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can help sustain 2023’s...
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