Health coverage under the Affordable Care Act: enrollment trends and state estimates
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- ASPE issue brief
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Office of Health Policy, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, June 5, 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data Insurance Coverage -- trends State Government United States United States. Department of Health and Human Services. United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- KEY POINTS. (1) The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created new pathways to coverage via health insurance Marketplaces and Medicaid expansion in participating states, which both took effect beginning in 2014. (2) As of the most recently available administrative data, 11.3 million consumers were enrolled in Marketplace plans as of February 2021, and 14.8 million people were newly enrolled in Medicaid via the ACA’s expansion of eligibility to adults as of December 2020. In addition, 1 million individuals were enrolled in the ACA’s Basic Health Program option, and nearly 4 million previously-eligible adults gained coverage under the Medicaid expansion due to enhanced outreach, streamlined applications, and increased federal funding under the ACA. (3) Across these coverage groups, 31 million Americans were enrolled in coverage related to the ACA, representing the highest total on record. (4) In addition, the ACA also enables young adults to stay on their parents plans until age 26, and more than 1 million new consumers have signed up for Marketplace plans during the 2021 Special Enrollment Period since February 15, 2021. (5) All 50 states and the District of Columbia have experienced substantial reductions in the uninsured rate since 2013, the last year before full implementation of the ACA.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (8 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918367286106676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918367286106676