A new report has upped the estimated number of people who have gained health insurance through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Department of Health and Human Services now estimates that 17.6 million Americans are insured because of the law, up from the previous estimate of 16.4 million that was released in March.
“Five years in, millions of people have new coverage and the percentage of the uninsured has been reduced to the lowest level on record," said HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell during an address at the Howard University College of Medicine. "We now have a new opportunity before us to build on this progress.”
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