A look at the health insurance in 2014

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A look at the health insurance in 2014 -

Since it was put into effect, the Affordable Care Act numerous changes brought to the health insurance market. have Medicaid expansion and premium tax credits millions of Americans gain health insurance helped. The Urban Institute Health Policy Center recently released a report on how the Medicaid and market ACA provisions are concerned about the amount of insured Americans.

The Urban Institute Health Policy Center Health Reform Monitoring Survey analyzed the background of the analysis

, the comparison of uninsurance rates for non-elderly adults (aged 18-64 ) 2014 data that was on the changes in health insurance during 2013, the focus is collected by the second quarter. [1945007[

The main results of the analysis

, the number of uninsured non-elderly adults by 22.3 percentage points, with an estimated 9 million fewer uninsured adults between September 2013 and June 2014 June 2014, the uninsurance rate for non-elderly adults at 13.9 percent nationwide appreciated.

In addition, the countries that expanded Medicaid significant declines in their uninsurance rates until June 2014 states with Medicaid expansion had saw their uninsured rate decline by 6.1 percentage points, while non-expansion states only saw a decline 1.7 percentage points uninsurance

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low- and middle-income adults through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) key cover provisions big profits in the insurance coverage after the Urban Institute. uninsured2

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As the graph above shows, between September 2013 and June 2014, insurance coverage for low-income households with income by 7, 3 percentage points at or below 138 percent of federal poverty level (FPL). The survey indicates that these people were targeted by the Medicaid expansion of the ACA.

The coverage for households with average incomes (139-399 percent of FPL) increased by 5.3 percent. These households with middle income by the premium tax credits were purchased specifically for individual health insurance through the exchanges, according to the Urban Institute.

There were increases of Covered adults in all age, gender, and race demographics. The survey indicates that the main gains between the groups were having historically higher uninsurance rates. The survey found that :.

  • Young adults (ages 18 to 30) had a 4.3 percentage point increase in the benefit

  • Coverage rates for men reading by 4.3 percentage points.

  • Coverage rates for non-white, non-Hispanic persons increased by 6.9 percentage points.

to the full analysis on Urban Institute.

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