Forbes May 3, 2024
Strides have been made towards reducing the numbers of people without health insurance in the U.S. In August 2023 the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the national uninsured rate reached an all-time low of 7.7% during the first quarter of the year. The number of uninsured declined from 31.6 million to 25.3 million over the 2020–23 period.
Importantly, the largest drops in numbers of uninsured took place among lesser well off individuals whose household income was either below 100% or between 200% and 400% of the federal poverty level. But it’s millions of these folks, who have been disenrolled from Medicaid since the Covid-19 pandemic public health emergency ended in April of last year, who now find...
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