Seven years after the passage of Affordable Care Act, the progress toward reducing the number of uninsured Americans appears to have stalled.
In 2016, 28.6 million people were uninsured, unchanged from 2015, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The percentage of Americans who were uninsured was 9 percent, no significant change from the 2015 uninsured rate of 9.1 percent.
Adults aged 18–64 residing in states that expanded Medicaid as part of the ACA were less likely to be uninsured than those residing in states that refused to expand the program, the CDC said. In Medicaid expansion states, the percentage of uninsured adults decreased, from 18.4 percent in 2013 to
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
