Center on Budget and Policy Priorities June 24, 2024
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) dramatically improved health insurance coverage rates, and recent decisions by Congress and the Administration related to its implementation have boosted both coverage and affordability, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE).
For many years before the ACA, the share of people with private health insurance coverage fell as rising health care costs made coverage increasingly unaffordable. Stringent Medicaid eligibility rules left non-disabled, low-income adults without children almost entirely without coverage options. By 2010, roughly 48 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population, lacked health insurance coverage.
Two key provisions of the ACA gave people new opportunities to access affordable, comprehensive coverage:...
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