Efforts to get more Americans into some kind of public or private health insurance program slowed earlier this year, and the uninsured rates for poor children and the unemployed increased.
Managers of the federal government's National Health Interview Survey program have documented the slump in health coverage expansion in a new summary of results from the interviews conducted from January through March.
The Affordable Care Act powered big drops in the U.S. uninsured rate in 2014 and 2015, by providing cash states could use to expand their Medicaid programs, changing major medical insurance underwriting and pricing rules, and starting the health insurance premium tax credit subsidy program for moderate-income purchasers of commercial health coverage.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
