Uninsured rate expected to hit 8.9% over next decade, CBO finds

Healthcare DIVE June 18, 2024
Rebecca Pifer

New government projections chart the dogged rise in the nation’s uninsured rate as policies that swelled healthcare coverage during the coronavirus pandemic expire.

Dive Brief:

• The rate of uninsured Americans is expected to rise over the next decade, largely erasing coronavirus pandemic-era gains as subsidies for plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces and policy stipulations keeping low-income people on Medicaid expire, according to new projections from the Congressional Budget Office.
• This year, just 7.7% of Americans, or 26 million people, are uninsured, according to the CBO. In comparison, 10.3% or 33.2 million Americans were uninsured in 2019.
• Yet an estimated 1.7 million people — mostly working-age adults — will become uninsured on average every...

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