Becker's Healthcare September 16, 2019
Emily Rappleye

CMS Administrator Seema Verma says an increase in the number of uninsured Americans between 2017-18 is the result of rising premiums and insufficient subsidies to buy health insurance under the ACA.

“Simply put, there are too many people without subsidies who cannot afford coverage under Obamacare,” she wrote in a blog for CMS.

Her comments come in response to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau that found the uninsured rate grew 0.5 percentage points between 2017-18. The report notes the percentage of people with public coverage — Medicare and Medicaid...

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