Healthcare DIVE November 1, 2021
Dive Brief:
- The rate of uninsured Americans stayed essentially stable last year — between 8.6% and 9.7% — as Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplace offerings offset losses of employer coverage. But there are still sizable disparities in who lacks health insurance coverage, according to new federal data.
- Between 28 million and 31.6 million people were uninsured in 2020, roughly the same as the about 30 million U.S. residents uninsured in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
- The Biden administration released the numbers just before the start of the open enrollment period in the federal health insurance marketplaces on Monday.
Dive Insight:
Despite dire predictions during the...
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