Healthcare Innovation September 11, 2024
The Census Bureau releases new data on uninsurance among Americans
The proportion of Americans without health insurance remained stable in 2023, the Census Bureau reported on Sep. 10, close to the record low that the Biden administration had achieved in 2022 through expansions of public programs, including the Affordable Care Act.
As KFF Health News’s Phil Galewitz reported on that same date, “About 8 percent of Americans were uninsured, a statistically insignificant increase of just 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier. But because of the Census survey’s methodology, the findings likely don’t capture the experience of tens of millions of Americans purged from Medicaid rolls after pandemic-era protections expired in spring 2023. Enrollment in Medicaid, the government health program...
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