Has the Uninsured Rate Stalled at 9 Percent?

by Admin | November 3, 2016 3:26 pm

November 3, 2016—The Obamacare-driven decline in the share of Americans lacking health insurance might have stalled at about 9 percent, with about one out of every four poor and near-poor adults under age 65 still lacking coverage, new data from the National Center for Health Statistics[1] show. Meanwhile, nearly 40 percent of insured working-age adults are now enrolled in a high-deductible health plan, up nearly 15 percent from just six years ago.  


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  1. new data from the National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur201611.pdf
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