Health Affairs October 19, 2023
On August 3, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the national uninsured rate reached an all-time low of 7.7 percent during the first quarter of the year. The total complement of uninsured US residents of all ages declined from 31.6 million to 25.3 million over the 2020–23 interval. It follows that a total of 6.3 million US residents (5.5 million adults ages 18–64 and 0.7 million children ages 0–17), heretofore uninsured, have joined the ranks of the insured. The most pronounced gains took place among individuals whose household income was either below 100 percent or between 200 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
As the HHS report notes “health coverage related to...
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