MedPage Today August 31, 2021
— Medicaid expansion states saw half as many uninsured versus non-expansion states
Rates of health insurance coverage remained mostly stable during the pandemic, with an estimated 1.6 more Americans gaining coverage in 2020, according to an early release from the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).
From 2019 to 2020, the uninsured rate dropped from an estimated 10.3% (33.2 million) to 9.7% (31.6 million), a non-significant difference, reported Robin Cohen, PhD, of the National Center for Health Statistics, and colleagues.
Adults ages 18-64 were most likely to lack health coverage, at 13.9%, and the uninsured rate was twice as high in states that did not expand Medicaid compared to those that did (20.8% vs 10.2%, respectively).
“That’s pretty striking,” Cohen...
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