Health coverage changes under the Affordable Care Act: end of 2021 update
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- ASPE issue brief
- Author(s):
- Lee, Aiden, author Chu, Rose C., author Peters, Christie, author Sommers, Benjamin D., author
- 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. : Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Health Policy April 29, 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data Insurance Coverage -- trends Medically Uninsured -- statistics & numerical data Medicaid -- statistics & numerical data Medicaid -- trends United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Newly-released data from the National Health Interview Survey shows that the uninsured rate for the U.S. population was 8.8 percent in Q4 2021 (October –December 2021), down 1.5 percentage points from 10.3 percent in Q4 2020. This reflects approximately 4.9 million people gaining health coverage since the end of 2020. Individuals with incomes below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level experienced larger decreases in the uninsured rate than higher income households. Coverage gains for adults ages 18-64 from the second half of 2020 to the second half of 2021 occurred across all racial and ethnic groups reported in the new data, with the uninsured rate declining by 3.5 percentage points among Latino adults, 1.8 percentage points among Black adults, and 0.5 percentage points among White adults. Meanwhile, administrative data from late 2021 and early 2022 show a record-high number of people with coverage related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)--with more than 35 million people estimated to be enrolled in the Medicaid expansion, Basic Health Program, or Marketplace coverage. These data suggest that policies including the American Rescue Plan, new state Medicaid expansions, and the 2021 Marketplace Special Enrollment Period, in addition to the economic recovery, have helped Americans gain insurance coverage during the COVID-19 public health crisis.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (13 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918539488506676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918539488506676